Why and How Smoking Cessation Must Be Implemented in Urology Clinics as a Standard of Care

Andres Affentranger; Richard S Matulewicz; Christian D Fankhauser

doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2022.04.015

Why and How Smoking Cessation Must Be Implemented in Urology Clinics as a Standard of Care

Eur Urol. 2022 Sep;82(3):245-246. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2022.04.015. Epub 2022 May 4.

Authors

Andres Affentranger¹, Richard S Matulewicz², Christian D Fankhauser³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, Cantonal Hospital of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland; University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
² Department of Surgery, Urology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Urology, Cantonal Hospital of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland. Electronic address: cdfankhauser@gmail.com.

PMID: 35525775
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2022.04.015

Abstract

Smoking cessation is a cost-efficient and important intervention in urology. Implementation studies are required to identify how support for smoking cessation can be successfully introduced in daily clinical routine in urology.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Humans
Smoking Cessation*
Standard of Care
Urology*

Grants and funding

K08 CA259452/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States