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Health Education Research, Vol. 15, No. 1, 118-120, February 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

Book Review

Helping the Hard-core Smoker: A Clinician's Guide

Kevin Lucas

Public Health Policy Analyst, East Sussex, Brighton and Hove Health Authority, Visiting Research Fellow in Health and Social Psychology, University of Sussex

The foreword to this volume states that it `belongs on the desk of every physician, psychiatrist, nurse practitioner, dentist, psychologist, elementary and secondary school teacher, drug and alcohol counsellor in the nation'. Does it live up to this ambitious claim?

In this book, `hard-core smokers' are defined as people who smoke despite being seriously ill, those who score highly on nicotine dependence scales or who have co-existing psychological morbidity which renders them more likely to smoke (e.g. depression).

The book is arranged in five parts. Part I is a single chapter which is a useful introduction to the nature of pharmacological . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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