In the frame of PESCE project 31 organisations from 27 countries have developed evidence-based policy recommendations and practice-based implementation strategies to increase the engagement of General Practitioners in smoking cessation in Europe. The project ran from August 2006 to June 2008 under the leadership of Tabac & Liberté (France) and was co-funded by the European Commission Public Health Directorate. ENSP was a collaborating partner.

At an expert workshop on 10 December 2007 in Warsaw, the fifteen policy recommendations mentioned above were elaborated by 33 experts from 18 countries based on the scientific evidence collected in the project. At a stakeholder conference in Barcelona on 27-28 March 2008, 96 stakeholders from 23 countries (including participants from the United States, Brazil and Uruguay) pooled their knowledge and experience and suggested a catalogue of measures to support the implementation of the PESCE policy recommendations on national level.

The final reports of the Health Professionals and Smoking Cessation in a Larger Europe (II) project are presented hereafter.

EUROSCIP III aims to develop a standardised questionnaire to measure smoking prevalence of pregnant women and make international comparisons and develop cohort analyses. 

The aim of EUROSCIP II was to encourage health professionals to participate in identifying intervention strategies to reduce smoking in pregnancy as well as to prevent subsequent relapse.

This project aimed to develop European guidelines on how to train doctors to sensitise their awareness of patients’ smoking habits and provide them with evidence-based tools to help patients to quit.