Manual of Smoking Cessation

Andy McEwen is Senior Research Nurse at the Cancer ResearchUK Health Behaviour Unit at University College London. His currentresearch includes surveys of smokers and health professionals,pharmacokinetic studies on nicotine delivery systems and clinicaltrials of behavioural treatments; he also retains an interest innursing research. In 1997 he began his clinical and academic careerin smoking cessation with Robert West. In 2003 he took up hiscurrent post and is Director of the Smoking Cessation ServicesResearch Network (SCSRN) and Programme Director of the UK NationalSmoking Cessation Conference (UKNSCC).
Peter Hajek is Professor of Clinical Psychology, Head ofPsychology, and Director of Tobacco Dependence Research Unit atBarts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine andDentistry, University of London. His research is concernedprimarily with understanding smoking behaviour, and developing andevaluating smoking cessation treatments. He has authored orco-authored over 200 publications, holds various academic andeditorial appointments, and had input into the UK Government'sinitiative to establish smoking cessation services. His Unit isinvolved in examining both behavioural and pharmacologicalinterventions, and in offering treatment to dependent smokers whoseek help.
Dr Hayden McRobbie is a Research Fellow at the ClinicalTrials Research Unit, University of Auckland, New Zealand where hespecialises in smoking cessation research and treatment. He studiedmedicine at the University of Otago and after a several years inclinical medicine he moved to London to work with Professor PeterHajek. He worked on a large number of projects and clinical trailslooking at ways to help people stop smoking, as wellpharmacological and behavioural methods that alleviate the symptomsof tobacco withdrawal. In New Zealand Hayden continues his researchinto treatment to help people stop smoking and retains close linkswith the UK where he is a Visiting Lecturer at Barts and TheLondon, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, andProgramme Director of the UK National Smoking CessationConference.
Robert West is Director of Tobacco Studies at the CancerResearch UK Health Behaviour Unit at University College London. Hehas been researching tobacco and nicotine dependence since 1982 andhas published more than 250 scientific works. His research involvessurveys of smoking patterns, clinical trials of aids to smokingcessation and laboratory studies of nicotine withdrawal symptoms.He is co-author of the English National Smoking CessationGuidelines that provided the blueprint for the English Stop SmokingServices and is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Addiction.