General University Hospital in Prague
Center for Tobacco Dependent
Karlovo Namesti 32
12000 Praha 2

Czech Republic

 

Project leader

MD PhD Eva Kralikova Project leader  Phone: +420 (0) 224 966 608  Fax: +420 (0) 224 966 612  Contact

Project Staff

Prof, MD, PhD Richard Ceska Senior Researcher  Phone: +420 (0) 224962946  Fax: +420 (0) 224962946  Contact

MD Lenka Stepankova Senior Researcher  Phone: +420 (0) 224966608  Fax: +420 (0) 224966612  Contact

MD Jan Brodnicek Senior Researcher  Phone: +420 (0) 318641625

MD Martina Stejskalova Senior Researcher  Phone: +420 (0) 318641664  Contact

Mgr Nina Janyskova Senior Researcher  Phone: +420 (0) 23002831  Fax: +420 (0) 236005756  Contact

MD et Mgr. Jan Zajak Senior Researcher  Contact

MD Iva Tomaskova Senior Researcher  Phone: +420 (0) 532233173  Contact

PaeDr. Lenka Kubrichtova Senior Researcher  Phone: +420 (0) 603257491  Contact

MD Alexandra Kmetova Junior Researcher  Phone: +420 (0) 224966608  Fax: +420 (0) 224966612  Contact

Vladislava Felbrova Nurse  Phone: +420 (0) 22496608  Fax: +420 (0) 22496612  Contact

Stanislava Kulovana Nurse  Phone: +420 (0) 22496608  Fax: +420 (0) 224966612  Contact

Hana Tomaskova Nurse  Phone: +420 (0) 318641653

Institute Presentation

Centre for Tobacco Dependent Patients
at the 3rd Medical Department – Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic.

Our centre works full time since 2005 serving smokers who want to stop. We are based at medical department of a large university hospital, so majority of our patients comes from this surroundings, but also recommended by other physicians or by our former patients. Our team consists of 3 physicians and two nurses.

After the appointment, the first (screening) visit takes about one hour – mostly it means basic measures, assessing the level of tobacco dependence and psychiatric comorbidity including complete medical history. Then the main psycho-social-behavioural intervention (about 2 hours) is performed during the next visit. The rest of visits are controls taking about 30 minutes. We follow our patients one year since the last cigarette. The mean number of visits during this year is 7.

In the frame of the Society for Treatment of Tobacco Dependence we collaborate with now about 30 similar centres across the country. Under methodology and guidelines also recommendation for treatment of tobacco dependent adolescents are formulated and some of those centres collaborate in treatment of adolescents. In our centre, currently only about 1 % of patients (20 from more than 2,000) are younger than 18 years. We hope to increase this proportion due to seminars we organize and due to the ACCESS project.