(Adnkronos) - Il fumo e i rischi collegati, i metodi per combatterlo, le alternative ai classici prodotti da combustione, la centralità del rapporto fra medico e paziente nella riduzione dei rischi per la salute. Queste le principali tematiche affrontate durante il convegno Abitudine al fumo: la discussione guidata dagli esperti, tenutosi a Roma nell’ambito di Romacuore 2024. Monitoraggio sistematico delle abitudini dei pazienti e informazione sui rischi sono alla base della dissuasione dall’abitudine al fumo. Fra le possibili strategie, la sostituzione della sigaretta con dispositivi senza combustione. Sullo sfondo, politiche sanitare nazionali ancora da armonizzare.
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00:00The phenomenon of tobacco, the methods to combat it, the alternatives to the classic
00:09combustion products, the centrality of the relationship between doctor and patient in the
00:14reduction of health risks. These are the main issues addressed during the
00:19convention Habitual Smoking, the discussion led by the experts held in Rome in the context of
00:24Roma Cuore 2024.
00:26Tobacco is something that requires even more empathy in the doctor-patient relationship and, unfortunately,
00:34it has been seen that one or two minutes are insufficient times, as well as an
00:41out-of-the-blue question of how many cigarettes have been smoked for how long, without then
00:46developing a project for its cessation.
00:50This year's convention was the 21st edition of one of the most anticipated events by the
00:55Roman medical community and also represented the opportunity to compare it with the approach
00:59adopted in other countries and by international health authorities. Among the central themes
01:04remains the exposure to nicotine, however, also produced by non-combustible devices.
01:09Nicotine is always a big issue, since these products contain nicotine, but nicotine
01:17does not seem to be the fundamental cause of the atherosclerosis linked to smoking.
01:24What is the cause? Some of the almost 2,000 substances that are emitted when we light
01:33a cigarette, nicotine causes a spasm in the blood vessels, it is harmful, but it is not the
01:40fundamental cause of the damage caused by smoking.
01:44In the future, therefore, national health policies, perhaps inspired by the Greek example, will
01:50be central to the information to the consumer, which has corrective, if not dissuasive,
01:55implications. Greece has already issued a decree that says that these products have less
02:01harmful substance emissions, other countries that have not really continued on any road
02:08and still this thing depends only on the consumer.
02:12But the management and habit of smoking, to be classified and monitored, as is done
02:16with other risk factors, remains an open issue, in which the role of territorial medicine
02:21and basic doctors is strategically confirmed.