OBJECTIVE To assess what family physicians need to promote smoking cessation by
looking at current knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours and to examine the barriers facing …

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

Most physicians are aware of the health benefits of smoking cessation and agree they have
a responsibility to help smokers quit. Many physicians, however, do not regularly address …

Background. Professional groups urge physicians to ag gressively counsel their patients
who smoke, but re search evaluating the effectiveness of physician counsel ing has …

BACKGROUND: In Canada, smoking is the leading preventable cause of premature death.
Family physicians and nurse practitioners are uniquely positioned to initiate smoking …

Objective-To identify the factors that physicians believe impair their ability to provide
smoking cessation advice to their patients. Design-Ethnographic interviews of physicians …

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

Objectives: Primary care physicians are uniquely positioned to initiate and promote smoking
cessation. However, their attitude towards smoking cessation is influenced by many factors …

Background. To be most effective, physicians' smoking cessation interventions must go
beyond advice, to include counseling and follow-up. A full profile of physician performance …