Background. Professional groups urge physicians to ag gressively counsel their patients
who smoke, but re search evaluating the effectiveness of physician counsel ing has …

Objective: To obtain a baseline measure of tobacco con-trol activities carried out by
physicians and of tobacco control policies and practices in physician offices. Design: All …

This study examined the anti-smoking counseling practices of a group of family practice
physicians and related these to success in persuading patients to stop smoking. The study …

Objectives.—To determine the percentage of smokers reporting that a physician had ever
advised them to smoke less or to stop smoking, and the effect of time, demographics …

Objective: To examine associations between sociodemographic and psychological
characteristics of smokers and delivery of 5 types of smoking cessation counseling …

BACKGROUND We explored the relationships between advice front a physician to quit
smoking and an army of respondents' characteristics, including sociodemographic factors …

Family physicians are able to approach many patients who smoke but are often hesitant to
help them quit. Lack of knowledge about effective interventions is a major reason for this …

Physicians may be hesitant to advise their patients to give up cigarette smoking partly
because they doubt their own effectiveness. The three studies cited in this paper indicate …

Although many family physicians may discuss smoking cessation with their patients, few do
so consistently. A common belief among many physicians is that such efforts will not deter …

Two studies conducted at the Ottawa Civic Hospital Family Medicine Centre indicate that
physicians are unlikely to help patients quit smoking merely by discussing cessation …