Tobacco Cessation

Tobacco use is one of the major challenges to international health and all health professionals have an important roleto play in helping to stop the global tobacco epidemic.

“Available evidence suggests that behavioural counselling (typically brief) conducted by oral health professionals in conjunction with an oral examination in the dental office or community setting can increase tobacco abstinence rates by 70% at six months or longer

FDI is advocating for oral health care teams to acknowledge that helping tobacco users to quit the habit is part of their role and to formally recognise that smoking cessation is part of the practice of dentistry. In addition, oral health professional organisations should have a responsibility in supporting political processes to build an environment conducive to health and that includes strong tobacco control policies.

Tobacco Cessation Guidance
Tobacco Cessation
FDI Tobacco Cessation Guide for Health Professionals
Chairside guide

This new guidance presents how to deliver a three to five minutes advice to help a tobacco user make a quit attemptin a primary care setting.

Watch how to deliver three-to-five-minute, brief tobacco interventions to dental patients in primary care by using the 5As and 5Rs models :

Tobacco Cessation: Let’s talk

The World Health Organization (WHO) World No Tobacco Day 2005 campaign emphasized that health professionals, including oral health professionals, have the greatest potential of any group in society to promote the reduction of tobacco use. They have several roles to play in comprehensive tobacco control efforts, including that of role model, clinician, educator, scientist, leader, opinion builder, and alliance builder.

The FDI Tobacco Cessation project was launched in 2020 to provide oral health professionals with smoking cessation and control resources that can be implemented in the dental setting in collaboration with other relevant health professionals.

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Lets talk

Project Goals

Increase awareness of the fundamental role of oral health profession to work for tobacco cessation

Increase knowledge and skills of oral health professionals to provide tobacco cessation interventions in dental settings.

Increase awareness of the dangers of tobacco smoking to oral health & emphasize the importance of oral health to achieving overall health and well-being.

Tobacco Cessation Project Advisor

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
Dr Dongbo Fu
China

Resources

  • Tobacco Cessation Guidance
    Tobacco Cessation
    FDI Tobacco Cessation Guide for Health Professionals
    Chairside guide

    This new guidance presents how to deliver a three to five minutes advice to help a tobacco user make a quit attemptin a primary care setting.

  • e-cigarette
    Tobacco Cessation
    The Effects of E-cigarettes on Oral Health
    Fact sheet
  • Tobacco or oral health_An advocacy guide for oral health professionals_toolkit
    Oral health and general health
    Tobacco or oral health: An advocacy guide for oral health professionals
    Toolkit

    This Guide, developed jointly by FDI World Dental Federation (FDI) and the World Health Organization (WHO), provides tobacco facts, highlights the involvement of the FDI and...

  • Tobacco Cessation
    08/31/2021
    Let’s Talk: the 5As and 5Rs to help patients quit tobacco