Methods Three 90-minute focus groups, involving 33 patients from 3 primary care clinics,
were conducted. Participants were current or recent (having quit within 6 months) smokers …

Introduction Despite limitations in evidence, the current Clinical Practice Guideline
advocates Motivational Interviewing for smokers not ready to quit. This study evaluated the …

Conclusions: Similarly to the international findings, smoking patients in Switzerland receive
brief advice with insufficient frequency. Action should therefore be taken to encourage health …

Background: While smoking cessation interventions have been shown to work, questions
remain about how to increase their efficacy. Purpose: To examine strategies for effective …

Aims To establish whether proactively identifying all smokers in primary care populations
and offering smoking cessation support is effective in increasing long‐term abstinence from …

Although the prevalence of cigarette smoking has declined in the United States, little
documentation exists to ascertain which health care providers (HCPs) promote smoking …

BACKGROUND: Counseling by clinicians promotes smoking cessation, but in most US
primary care practices, it is difficult to provide more than brief advice to quit in the course of …

At follow‐up of 751 subjects receiving a brief nurse‐administered anti‐smoking intervention
in general practice, 135 subjects (18%) reported stopping smoking, of whom 44 (6%) …

Background. The goal of this study is to better understand factors related to physician
treatment of tobacco as a chronic medical condition. Methods. In the fall of 2000, we …

Background and aims Three to 10 minutes of smoking cessation advice by physicians is
effective to increase quit rates, but is not routinely practised. We examined the effectiveness …