Background: Current tobacco treatment guidelines have established the efficacy of available
interventions, but they do not provide detailed guidance for common implementation …

Key Clinical Points Tobacco Addiction Tobacco addiction is a chronic relapsing disorder that
accounts for more than 480,000 deaths annually in the United States and is characterized by …

Importance More deaths in the US are attributed to cigarette smoking each year than to any
other preventable cause. Approximately 34 million people and an estimated 14% of adults in …

Background: Many placebo-controlled trials have demonstrated the efficacy of individual
pharmacotherapies approved for smoking cessation. However, few direct or indirect …

ObjectiveTo summarize the recently published US Public Health Service report Treating
Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Clinical Practice Guideline, which provides …

The scant dozen years following the publication of the first Guideline have ushered in
similarly impressive changes. In 1997, only 25 percent of managed health care plans …

Although the proportion of the adult population in the United States that smokes has
decreased steadily, the rate of successful quit attempts is still low. Smokers develop nicotine …

Clinical Question Among the 3 first-line smoking cessation treatments (nicotine replacement
therapy [NRT], bupropion, and varenicline), which is most effective in helping people who …

Tobacco use is one of the leading preventable causes of death in developed countries.
Adoption of approaches that have demonstrated efficacy to improve the treatment of tobacco …

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, a Public Health Service-sponsored Clinical
Practice Guideline, is a product of the Tobacco Use and Dependence Guideline Panel (" the …