11 January 2005	Tuesday	29 Ziqa'ad 1425

KARACHI, Jan 10: The Pakistan Chest Society (Sindh), in collaboration with the Department of Chest Medicine, JPMC and the section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Aga Khan University, will organize a two-day workshop of training methods from Jan 11.

The seminar will be held at the Committee Hall of the JPMC. Leading experts of the country and from abroad would be facilitating the workshop. The aim of the workshop includes educating participants to recognize tobacco as a major health problem in Pakistan, learn methods of smoking cessation and also learn to motivate smokers to change their behaviour toward the use of tobacco use, and establish smoking cessation clinics in their own set-ups.

It may be mentioned that smoking is amongst the six top non-infectious health hazards in the world and is a cause of premature death. About 35 per cent people in Pakistan are using tobacco in some form. Some 70 per cent of smokers want to quit smoking in some stage of their lives, but there are no proper smoking cessation clinics in the country. - PPI