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Editorial
. 2018 Jul 31;4(3):00070-2018.
doi: 10.1183/23120541.00070-2018. eCollection 2018 Jul.

The WHO-ERS Smoking Cessation Training Project: the first year of experience

Dongbo Fu  1 , Christina Gratziou  2   3 , Carlos Jiménez-Ruiz  4 , Marine Faure  5 , Brian Ward  5 , Sofia Ravara  6   7 , Vinayak Mohan Prasad  1 , Kristina Mauer-Stender  8 , Jagdish Kaur  9 , Angela Ciobanu  10 , Syed Mahfuzul Huq  11 , Paraskevi Katsaounou  12
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The WHO-ERS Smoking Cessation Training Project: the first year of experience

Dongbo Fu et al. ERJ Open Res. .

Abstract

Strategic @ERSTalk-@WHO alliance to address tobacco use by training health professionals on brief advice resulted in establishing smoking cessation in real care settings with quit rates higher than the literature and high propensity for wider dissemination http://ow.ly/lWDF30krq5V.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: D. Fu reports receiving grants from the European Respiratory Society. Conflict of interest: M. Faure is an employee of the European Respiratory Society. Conflict of interest: B. Ward is an employee of the European Respiratory Society. Conflict of interest: P. Katsaounou reports receiving honoraria from Pfizer, BI, GSK, Menarini and Chiesi, outside the submitted work. Conflict of interest: S.M. Huq reports receiving grants from the European Respiratory Society. Conflict of interest: V.M. Prasad reports receiving grants from the European Respiratory Society.

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World Health Organization–European Respiratory Society Train the Trainer project first year experience in a, b) Greece (2016), c) Bangladesh (2017) and d) the Republic of Moldova (2016).
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