Renee Bittoun

Renee has worked in Smoking Cessation for more than 30 years and is an inaugural member of the international SRNT (international Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco). She started one of the world’s first Smokers’ Clinics in Sydney, Australia in 1979 at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. Currently she is Director of the Smokers’ Clinics of the Sydney Local Health District and Adjunct Associate Professor, in the Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Notre Dame Australia.

She is the author of several books on smoking and quitting both for the public and as text books for practitioners. She has published many research articles on smoking and cessation. She has conducted clinical trials of many treatments for smoking cessation, both pharmacotherapies and behavioural interventions. She established and continues to teach the first University course on Nicotine Addiction and Smoking Cessation in any Australian University at University of Sydney, and is President of AASCP, The Australian Association of Smoking Cessation Professionals. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of a new international peer-reviewed Journal of Smoking Cessation.