Professor Paul Aveyard

Paul Aveyard is a practising GP and professor of behavioural medicine at the University of Oxford, UK where he develops and tests interventions for weight management and tobacco control. His work on tobacco control concerns mostly trials on smoking cessation and harm reduction, but he has also examined the immediate benefits of cessation on mood and the outcome for people with established smoking related disease. Paul is a senior editor of Addiction and coordinating editor of the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group. He is working to develop low intensity high reach individual behavioural interventions to help weight loss.

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