Preventing and Treating Tobacco and Nicotine Use in Pediatrics: A Clinical Support Chart

This convenient reference provides clinicians with point-of-care guidance to help their patients stop using tobacco- and nicotine-containing products--as well as the latest clinical data to encourage them to never start.

CONTENTS CONSIST OF

• Nicotine-Containing Products
• Tobacco Use Disorder/Adverse Effects
• Prevention and Treatment
• Withdrawal Management, With and Without Medication
• Policy and Resources

Harold J. Farber, MD, MSPH, FAAP is a Professor of Pediatrics, Pulmonary Division at Baylor College of Medicine and Pediatric Pulmonologist at Texas Children’s Hospital. His interests and accomplishments have focused on asthma, muscular dystrophies, tobacco dependence, and tobacco control.

Dr. Farber has served as lead or co-author for close to 100 articles in the peer reviewed scientific literature. He has authored chapters on asthma education and on tobacco dependence for allergy and for pulmonary textbooks. Dr. Farber has served as co-principal investigator for the Lowering Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure: LETS Manage Asthma study. He served as founding executive committee member and policy chair for the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Tobacco Control (now the Section on Nicotine and Tobacco Prevention and Treatment) and as chair of the American Thoracic Society Tobacco Action Committee. He served as co-author for the American College of Chest Physicians Tobacco Dependence Toolkit and as co-chair for the American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline, Initiating Pharmacologic Treatment in Tobacco Dependent Adults. Dr. Farber is a frequent speaker on tobacco control and tobacco dependence issues. He is interested in helping to ensure that tobacco dependence prevention and treatment is incorporated as a routine part of pediatric care.
Outside of medicine, Dr. Farber’s interests include music, travel, and photography. His current musical interests include jazz and opera.