Objective: To examine associations between sociodemographic and psychological
characteristics of smokers and delivery of 5 types of smoking cessation counseling …

Objectives.—To determine the percentage of smokers reporting that a physician had ever
advised them to smoke less or to stop smoking, and the effect of time, demographics …

BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions may be influenced by
a variety of patient characteristics, including level of nicotine addiction and readiness to …

To investigate the frequency of physician delivery of advice to stop smoking and patient
characteristics affecting whether physicians deliver such advice, the authors surveyed 97 …

Objective: To estimate the percentage of California smokers who visit physicians each year
and thus determine the extent of the opportunity for physicians to advise their smoking …

Objective: To obtain a baseline measure of tobacco con-trol activities carried out by
physicians and of tobacco control policies and practices in physician offices. Design: All …

Study Objective: To increase the effect that primary care physicians have on their patients
who smoke. Design: Randomized, controlled trial with 112 general internists and their …

Using a complete factorial design, we tested three interventions for smoking cessation in
routine primary care practice. The interventions tested were 1) physician counseling, 2) …

The objective of this study was to examine differences in the attitudes and reported practices
toward smoking intervention of 224 internal medicine, family practice, and surgical …

Objective To learn whether patients who smoke and who receive smoking cessation
information during medical office visits were less likely to be satisfied with the smoking …