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Tobacco cessation within TB programmes: A ‘real world’ solution for countries with dual burden of disease (TB and Tobacco)
Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,
We aim to reduce the burden of tobacco-related lung diseases. Our approach is to integrate inexpensive tobacco cessation strategies of proven efficacy into TB control programmes. This has three advantages: a) Preventing non-communicable diseases as well as reducing TB-related deaths; b) TB patients are more likely to quit tobacco than healthy smokers – ‘teachable moments’; and c) in the absence of ...
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