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| Web Pages |
| ACP Observer Nov 96 |
| American College of Physicians (ACP) message to its chapters: help end smoking where you live. |
| Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Nicotine Dependence |
| American Psychiatric Association guidelines. |
| Smoking Cessation Consumer Tools Kit |
| "Two Questions, Three Minutes, A Lifetime of Difference for Your Patients" |
| Treating Tobacco Dependence in the US |
| Findings and recommendations from a group looking for cost-effective science-based strategies. |
| Tobacco Facts for the Clinician |
| Dental Oncology Education Program (DOEP) report covers nicotine addiction; clinical intervention; cigarettes, cigars, and spit tobacco; secondhand smoke; tobacco promotion; US and Texas statistics. |
| Helping Smokers Quit: Ask, Advise, Assist |
| A guide for primary care clinicians. |
| Smoking Cessation: Clinical Guide |
| Guidelines developed by AHCPR and CDC to assist clinicians, cessation specialists, and health care administrators, insurers, and purchasers in delvering effective smoking cessation interventions. These recommendations were made as a result of an exhaustive and systematic review and analysis of the scientific literature. |
| Postgraduate Medicine: Nicotine Dependence symposium |
| Three papers from a medical symposium. Prevention is the ultimate "penicillin" for lung cancer; cessation is still the best medicine. Drug therapy to aid in cessation -- tips on maximizing patient's chances for success. Counselling patients to quit: what to say, when to say it. |
| Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use |
| Includes prevention as well as cessation. Summary of research on effectiveness of counseling by health professionals. |
| Is Bupropion an Effective Treatment for Smoking Cessation? |
| Slide presentation: smoking and what it's costing Americans; pharmacology of buproprion; review of the literature; cessation results, safety and adverse effects; other medications; NRT; cost; recommendations for clinical practice; bibliography. |
| A Randomized Controlled Trial of Smoking Cessation Counseling after Myocardial Infarction |
| A hospital-based smoking cessation program consisting of inpatient counseling and telephone follow-up substantially increases smoking abstinence 1 year after discharge. |
| Nursing Center for Tobacco Intervention |
| Educates nurses in delivery of tobacco cessation interventions. |
| AHCPR Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guidelines |
| Reprint. |
| Effectiveness of Interventions to Help People Stop Smoking |
| Evaluates different methods and gives recommendations. |
| Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians |
| Surgeon General guide on process, products, and stages of quitting. |
| Tobacco Addiction Treatment Poster Session |
| Papers presented at recent health conference on interventions, survey results, evaluation, strategies for success. |
| EndSmoking.org |
| An independent consortium of leaders in the treatment of tobacco dependence whose mission is to lower barriers to broader utilization of cessation therapy through education and advocacy; materials for patients, health professionals, and employers. |
| Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence |
| Pamplet from the American College of Chest Physicians. |
| Tobacco-Cessation Patient Counseling |
| Practice policy statement from the American College of Preventive Medicine. Covers: burden of suffering, description of preventive measures, evidence of effectiveness of preventive measures, public policy considerations, recommendations for other health care groups, rationale for physician counseling, and recommendations. |
| Why Be Involved / Barriers |
| Why oral health care professionals should be involved in tobacco cessation; major barriers to becoming involved. |
| NCI Protocol for a Dental Office |
| Tobacco use cessation protocol for dental offices from NCI. |
| Dental Cessation Program Responsibilities |
| Responsibilities and tasks for different health professionals in a dental office, including dentist, dental hygienist, dental assistance, receptionist, in a tobacco use program. |
| Lecture Outlines from Tobacco Topics in Dentistry |
| Lectures given to dental students. Prevalence and the systemic and local effects of smoking and spit tobacco use; smoking as a cause of periodontal diseases; effects of tobacco use on dental treatment results; nicotine addiction; stages of change; clinical interventions; use of nicotine and non-nicotine pharmacologic therapy; tobacco industry influence; role of oral health care providers in policy and media advocacy. |
| Opportunities for Improving Inpatient Smoking Cessation Programs: A Community Hospital Experience |
| Cohort study examined the role of smoking during hospitalization, duration of cessation counseling, patient awareness of the hospital's smoke-free policy, belief that smoking is associated with a current symptom or disease, and the presence of withdrawal symptoms with 12-month smoking cessation symptoms among inpatients enrolled in a smoking cessation program. |
| Oral Cancer, Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation |
| Poster session from health conference; abstracts included. |
| Occupational Therapy and Smoking Prevention and Cessation |
| NYU Department of Occupational Therapy materials. |
| Stopping Smoking |
| Review of scientific literature on smoking costs, quitting methods. |
| Acupuncture to Stop Smoking |
| Review of published scientific studies on use of acupuncture to stop smoking. |
| Smoking Cessation Approaches and Options |
| Presentation-ready slides on smoking, myths and facts, model for quitting, findings and recommendations, tips for helping patients quit, smoking cessation methods. |
| Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence -- A Systems Approach |
| A guide for health care administrators, insurers, managed care organizations, and purchasers. Describes the essentials for supporting tobacco cessation throughout organizations. |
| Smoking Cessation: Helping Adolescents Kick the Habit |
| Short article by a counselor examines movitvations to start and to quit, and offers suggestions. |
| Smoking Cessation and Pregnancy. |
| Slides from college lecture outline prevalence, strategies for cessation, effects on fetus and infant health, screening guidelines. |
| Smoke-Free Families: Interventions to Stop Smoking During and Beyond Pregnancy |
| How to help pregnant patients quit smoking. |