Tobacco Cessation
Tobacco use is one of the major challenges to international health and all health professionals have an important role to play in helping to stop the global tobacco epidemic.
FDI is advocating for oral health care teams to acknowledge that helping tobacco users to quit the habit is part of their role and to formally recognise that smoking cessation is part of the practice of dentistry. In addition, oral health professional organisations should have a responsibility in supporting political processes to build an environment conducive to health and that includes strong tobacco control policies.
Tobacco Cessation Workshops
As part of this project, FDI helps some member National Dental Associations (NDAs) to conduct workshops in their countries. These are aimed at providing oral health professionals with the necessary information and tools to deliver tobacco cessation advice to patients in their practice. FDI invites its members to actively contribute to these efforts by applying for a grant to implement the tobacco cessation workshop in their country.
FDI welcomes applications from Regular and Associate member NDAs for a grant of CHF 1 000 to implement the Tobacco Cessation Workshop. Return your completed application forms or for any inquiries, please email: projects@fdiworlddental.org.
Apply now for the Workshop (PDF)
Project goals
- Increase awareness of the fundamental role of oral health profession to work for tobacco cessation.
- Increase knowledge and skills of oral health professionals to provide tobacco cessation interventions in dental settings.
- Increase awareness of the dangers of tobacco smoking to oral health & emphasize the importance of oral health to achieving overall health and well-being.
The World Health Organization (WHO) World No Tobacco Day 2005 campaign emphasized that health professionals, including oral health professionals, have the greatest potential of any group in society to promote the reduction of tobacco use. They have several roles to play in comprehensive tobacco control efforts, including that of role model, clinician, educator, scientist, leader, opinion builder, and alliance builder.
The FDI Tobacco Cessation project was launched in 2020 to provide oral health professionals with smoking cessation and control resources that can be implemented in the dental setting in collaboration with other relevant health professionals.
The Tobacco Cessation project is supported by :
