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

BACKGROUND. The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) guidelines on
smoking cessation recommend that primary care physicians provide both brief advice …

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the effectiveness of interventions to disseminate
smoking cessation interventions among a population of primary care physicians. This study's …

Background. Many primary care practices do not have systematic protocols to identify
patients who smoke or to encourage clinicians to provide smoking cessation advice. We …

Objective The primary care visit represents an important venue for intervening with a large
population of smokers. However, physician adherence to the Smoking Cessation Clinical …

If physicians and other health-care providers were able to facilitate long-term cessation in 1
of every 10 smokers—a safe estimate based on the outcomes of randomized physician …

OBJECTIVE: To compare tobacco control practices of physicians and their staff in
Intervention communities with those in Comparison communities of the Community …

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 …

Objective Smoking cessation counseling practices may differ between physicians who
smoke and those who have quit or never smoked. Method Of 917 general practitioners (GP) …

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 …