BACKGROUND Smoking is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United
States. Recommendations for increasing physician effectiveness in smoking cessation …

Background: Strategies to improve smoking cessation counseling in clinical settings are
critical to supporting smokers' attempts to quit. This study evaluates the impact of adding 2 …

Despite decades of coaxing, American clinicians in large numbers continue to neglect the
leading preventable cause of illness and death in our societytobacco use. Fewer than 60 …

BACKGROUND. Smoking cessation advice is an effective intervention for the control of
tobacco use. The objective of this study was to assess and describe the rates of smoking …

• Physicians could help a large number of patients quit smoking by taking time to advise
them about quitting, helping them plan a date to quit, giving them self-help materials …

We describe practical, effective, office-based methods for physicians to use to assist patients
to stop smoking that do not require special training or support personnel. Brief counseling …

Introduction: Physicians advising their patients to quit smoking has been recognized as an
effective component of smoking cessation treatment, yet evidence suggests that physicians …

Cigarette smoking is the most important preventable cause of death in the United States.
Surveys of patients, however, suggest that many physicians do not routinely counsel …

Background. Although most physicians believe that smoking cessation assistance is
important for their patients, the majority of smokers report that they have not received …

In the last few years we have become increasingly aware of the limited value of intensive
smoking intervention programs which reach relatively few smokers.'Most smokers who have …