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 …

This is a study of physicians' stop-smoking advice to patients in a university-affiliated family
medicine outpatient center. The study population consisted of 311 cigarette-smoking …

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 …

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 …

To understand the effect of brief stop smoking advice by physicians, we conducted a
randomized clinical trial in 258 smokers. After three months, 8.8 per cent of the intervention …

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 …

BACKGROUND We explored the relationships between advice front a physician to quit
smoking and an army of respondents' characteristics, including sociodemographic factors …

Reprint requests to: Mr. Kurt Baumgartner, Executive director, Canadian Council on
Smoking and Health, 725 Churchill Ave., Ottawa, Ont. KIZ 5G7 on health education on racks …

Results The percentage of smokers who reported receiving advice increased from 26 4% in
1976 to 50 9% in 1987. The reported rate of receiving advice was 1-8 times higher in 1986-7 …

• Physicians could help a large number of patients quit smoking by taking time to advise
them about quitting, helping them plan a date to quit, giving them self-help materials …