Introduction: Advice can have a small but clinically important effect in promoting smoking
cessation. Where studied, the rate of delivery has been found to be low. Training has been …

Aims Effectiveness of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for smoking cessation has not
been evaluated in low income countries, such as S yria, where it is expensive and not widely …

BACKGROUND: Tobacco use causes hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States
each year. Pharmacists are available in the community to provide tobacco cessation …

BACKGROUND: Despite the fact that individuals who smoke are at an increased risk for
disease and therefore require frequent visits to pharmacies for medications, most community …

Background Although smoking-cessation interventions typically focus directly on patients,
this paper conducts an economic evaluation of a novel smoking-cessation intervention …

Background: Previous studies have found that offering additional callback counseling
support to smokers calling a telephone quit line increases quit rates. However, what is less …

Abstract Pharmacists in Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island were
surveyed in 2002 regarding their professional involvement in smoking cessation. In all …

Introduction: Cigarette smoking can damage every organ in the body and is the leading
known preventable cause of death globally. It is estimated that 70% of patients want to quit …

Background. In an effort to find more practical smoking intervention models for primary-care
settings, three physician-and-nurse team approaches to patient counseling were compared …

Objectives The purpose of this investigation was to determine patients' opinions of
pharmacists' involvement in smoking cessation activities and smokers' potential interest in …