LUNCH HOUR LECTURE: Beating cigarette addiction - the latest evidence

Written on 10.1.10 by D1 Property Finder

Location

Darwin Lecture Theatre - entrance via Malet Place | Darwin Building ( Map) 
Gower St | London | WC1E 6BT | United Kingdom

Open to: Academic | Alumni | Public | Student 
Admission: Free and open to anyone on a first-come first-served basis

One fifth of adults in Britain still smoke, and half of those who do not stop will be killed by their addiction a typical 20 years before their time. Cigarettes deliver nicotine to the brain faster than an intravenous injection, changing the brain so that it craves cigarettes, and of the four million British smokers who will try to stop this year, fewer than five per cent of them will succeed. Fortunately research has found ways of boosting the chances of success by some 300 per cent. This lecture will present the latest evidence on the best ways of beating cigarette addiction.

Contact

Dan Martin
+44 (0) 20 7679 7675 | dan.martin@ucl.ac.uk

Speaker information

Professor Robert West , UCL Epidemiology & Public Health 

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