The WHO European Partnership Project on Tobacco dependence: Achievements and issues

Tatiana Andreeva

Alcohol and Drug Information Center, Kiev, Ukraine

11th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Chicago, USA, 2000. Abstracts, page 285.

Situation in Ukraine
• Smoking has high prevalence
• Many smokers want to quit
• Professional help for smoking cessation is not available
• Some methods are practiced, but there is no system in this help
• International experience is mostly ignored

Background: what has been done by Alcohol and Drug Information Center (ADIC-Ukraine)
• Manual for medical doctors “What do your patients use besides air, water and food?”
• Booklet for smoke quitters
• Book for relatives and family members of smoke quitters
• “Main facts on tobacco”