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 …

Objective: Physician-delivered advice to stop smoking is effective, but time demands often
reduce the number of smokers who receive assistance. We evaluated three nurse-assisted …

Health providers believe that eliminating smoking is an important health promotion goal, but
physicians and nurse practitioners may differ in the implementation of that belief. To …

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: Smokers who make a quit attempt during hospitalization have improved long-
term abstinence if they receive follow-up support, including via a telephone quitline, a free …

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 assess the relative impacts of three physician-delivered smoking interventions
in combination with follow-up contact from behavioral counselors. Design: Randomized …

BACKGROUND.: Clinical guidelines for smoking cessation may not be sufficient for helping
some subgroups of smokers quit. Incorporating smoking cessation into home-based medical …

Abstract Hospital‐based nurses (N= 1,790) from three states reported their interventions to
help patients quit smoking. Frequency of nurses' interventions in one low tobacco use state …

OBJECTIVE.: We prospectively examined whether training home health care nurses is
associated with changes in attitudes towards smoking cessation counseling and counseling …