Background: While smoking cessation interventions have been shown to work, questions
remain about how to increase their efficacy. Purpose: To examine strategies for effective …

Background Randomized efficacy clinical trials conducted in research settings may not
accurately reflect the benefits of tobacco dependence treatments when used in real-world …

Identifies effective, experimentally validated smoking cessation treatments & practices.
Addresses primary care clinicians, smoking cessation specialists, & health care …

Cigarette smoking remains the leading preventable cause of morbidity and premature
mortality in the United States. Although the vast majority of smokers come in contact with the …

Abstract The United States Public Health Service acknowledges in the 2000 Clinical
Practice Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence that certain special …

Objective.—To summarize theSmoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guidelinethat provides
recommendations for 3 groups of professionals: primary care clinicians, smoking cessation …

BACKGROUND: Health promotion efforts encourage smokers to quit and to use effective
cessation treatments. Randomized controlled trials demonstrate that medications and …

Cigarette smoking represents the most important source of preventable morbidity and
premature mortality worldwide. Approximately 100 million deaths were caused by tobacco …

Given the proportion of American adults who smoke, even if health professionals only have
a small effect on quit rates, the public health impact of this change could potentially be …

Meta-analysis was used to examine 108 intervention comparisons in 39 controlled smoking
cessation trials. Type of intervention (face-to-face advice being better than all others), type of …