Smoking Cessation advice : Healthcare professional Training Erasmus Project

Project Title

Smoking Cessation advice : Healthcare professional Training

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Smoking has a high cost every year to healthcare services. The tobacco epidemic is one of the major public health challenges in Europe. Tobacco smoke contains a deadly mix of more than 7,000 chemicals which has been linked to cancer (Fiore et al. 2008; http://www.eaom.eu/pdf/content/tobacco.pdf). The World Health Organization has declared “The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing around 6 million people a year. More than 5 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while more than 600 000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.” (World Health Organization, Fact sheet 339, July, 2015).

This projected , coordinated by the University of Birmingham aimed to address this concern and it is directed to healthcare professionals, specialy Dentists, Medical Professionals, nurses, etc. The project partners selected ( (University of Milan, University of Santiago de Compustela, CESPU University and University of Bordeaux) have a wide experience in teaching, including roles as lecturers, senior lecturers and Professors within their own Universities. They have been teaching in the field of Oral Medicine, with an interest in smoking and its associated risks. They have multiple publications in peer reviews journals with a good experience in e-learning . Their areas of expertise are well described in the beginning of this application. Their full profile and expertise is available online : http://smokingcessationtraining.com/partners-profiles/

The Universities profile is available on:
United Kingdom- University of Birmingham (Coordinator) http://www.birmingham.ac.uk
France- University of Bordeaux (Partner) https://www.u-bordeaux.fr
Portugal- CESPU University (Partner) https://www.cespu.pt/en/
Italy- University of Milan (Partner) http://www.unimi.it
Spain- University of Santiago de Compustela (Partner) http://www.usc.es
(To ensure a high quality of the project was achieved, an independent assement of its content and impact of the study was carried out by
Consequently it was developed a project with the title Smoking Cessation advice: Healthcare professional training with the objectives of :
• Providing an e-learning tool, promoting smoking cession advice. This will be accessible to European Union healthcare professionals and translated into several languages
• To strengthen the ties among European Union Educational and Professional Health Institutions for promoting smoking cession advice.
• Increase professionals’ skills and improve personal portfolio, while taking into account the language /content differences between the countries’ education systems.

The e-learning smoking cessation advice project (http://smokingcessationtraining.com) was organized into several modules, by the end These include: This e-learning tool, about smoking cessation advice, is designed to be used by healthcare professionals such as nurses, pharmacists, dentists and doctors. It is freely available online. In the context of this project all academic and intellectual outputs are available, with translations, for free on our website’s downloadable content. http://smokingcessationtraining.com/downloadable-resources/
As part of the results and dissemination was carried in the form of posters, Facebook, tweeter, articles and communications meetings. Articles were published in prestigious medical and Dental scientific journals:

Keat R et al.. The Dentist’s Role in Smoking Cessation Management – A Literature Review and Recommendations: Part 2. Dent Update 2018; 45: 298-309 (Available on the e-learning )

Keat R et al. The Dentist’s Role in Smoking Cessation Management – A Literature Review and Recommendations: Part 1. Dental Update 2018 45:3, 197-206 ((Available on the e-learning )

Diniz-Freitas M et al. Web-Based Information on the Treatment of Tobacco Dependence for Oral Health Professionals: Analysis of English-Written Websites. J Med Internet Res. 2017 Oct 20;19(10):e349. doi: 10.2196/jmir.8174. (Available on the e-learning )

Thirdly, the e-learning was disseminated at a local, regional and national level, involving stakeholders. Consequently multiple Posters and communications were developed in National and International Conferences as well as the development of a e- Book . this is available on the website and well as all http://smokingcessationtraining.com/downloadable-resources/

The dissemination strategy ( http://smokingcessationtraining.com/dissemination-and-further-learning/ ) showed this learning content reached more than 100.000 healthcare professionals. A apart of the positive educational impact , on the long term we expect to have a wide healthcare impact, reducing the number of diseases and co morbilities associated with smoking and this is expected to have a economic impact European Union countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 68950 Eur

Project Coordinator

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM & Country: UK

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX
• Cooperativa de Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário, CRL. (CESPU)
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
• UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA