Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS, Italian National Institute of Health), National Centre on Addiction and Doping (NCAD). In the field of tobacco and nicotine products, NCAD-ISS deals with the following activities: national annual report on smoking prevalence in Italy and annual conference for the World No Tobacco Day; tobacco products dossier evaluation (interdisciplinary group); Italian clinical guideline for the treatment of tobacco and nicotine dependence; guidance handbookon smoking cessation for the public; counselling service for smoking cessation (quitline); management of the smoking cessation servicesnetwork of the National Health Service; work package leader and partner in the Joint Actionon Tobacco Control 1.