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Very Brief Advice for Tobacco Dependency

Delivering effective VBA

Read time: 20 mins
Last updated: 2nd Dec 2025
Published: 8th May 2020

Patient case video consultations

What is VBA?Do you know how to incorporate Very Brief Advice on Smoking (VBA) seamlessly into your patient consultations? Knowing their medical history, using visual clues and listening carefully to what they say are all key. See effective Very Brief Advice in action in some typical patient populations who smoke.

Meet Peter – multiple comorbidities
Meet Alexander – not yet ready to quit
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This section of the Learning Zone will give you examples of how a HCP might deliver effective effective Very Brief Advice during consultations with some typical types of tobacco smoker. These include patients using smoking to cope with stress, with comorbidities, relapsed smokers and those who aren’t yet ready to quit smoking.

Please note that in these scenario videos the patients and HCPs are actors.

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