TY - JOUR T1 - The WHO–ERS Smoking Cessation Training Project: the first year of experience JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00070-2018 VL - 4 IS - 3 SP - 00070-2018 AU - Dongbo Fu AU - Christina Gratziou AU - Carlos Jiménez-Ruiz AU - Marine Faure AU - Brian Ward AU - Sofia Ravara AU - Vinayak Mohan Prasad AU - Kristina Mauer-Stender AU - Jagdish Kaur AU - Angela Ciobanu AU - Syed Mahfuzul Huq AU - Paraskevi Katsaounou Y1 - 2018/07/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/4/3/00070-2018.abstract N2 - Globally, >7 million people die each year from tobacco use [1]. If no urgent action is taken, ≥100 million people will die from tobacco in the next 15 years [2]. Between 2010 and 2025, if tobacco use has a 50% relative reduction, it will help almost reach the global target to reduce premature noncommunicable disease (NCD) mortality by 25% by 2025 [3]. The World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 14 emphasises supporting current tobacco users to quit as a key component of comprehensive tobacco control strategy to avert premature NCD deaths [4, 5].Strategic @ERSTalk–@WHO alliance to address tobacco use by training health professionals on brief advice resulted in establishing smoking cessation in real care settings with quit rates higher than the literature and high propensity for wider dissemination http://ow.ly/lWDF30krq5V ER -