Effectiveness of Interventions to Help People Stop Smoking:Evaluates different methods and gives recommendations.
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.
ACP Observer Nov 96: American College of Physicians (ACP) message to its chapters: help end smoking where you live.
Acupuncture to Stop Smoking: Review of published scientific studies on use of acupuncture to stop smoking.
ASAM and Nicotine: Scientific analysis and policy recommendations on tobacco products, from the American Society for Addiction Medicine
Helping Smokers Quit: Ask, Advise, Assist: A guide for primary care clinicians.
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.
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.
Nursing Center for Tobacco Intervention: Educates nurses in delivery of tobacco cessation interventions.
Occupational Therapy and Smoking Prevention and Cessation: NYU Department of Occupational Therapy materials.
Oral Cancer, Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation: Poster session from health conference; abstracts included.
Reducing Tobacco Use: The Quest to Quit: Ouelines current approaches and policy recommendations for helping smokers quit.
Smoke-Free Families: Interventions to Stop Smoking During and Beyond Pregnancy: How to help pregnant patients quit smoking.
Smoking Cessation and Pregnancy.: Slides from college lecture outline prevalence, strategies for cessation, effects on fetus and infant health, screening guidelines.
Smoking Cessation Approaches and Options: Presentation-ready slides on smoking, myths and facts, model for quitting, findings and recommendations, evaluation of cessation aids, tips for helping patients quit, smoking cessation methods.
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.
Stopping Smoking: Review of scientific literature on smoking costs, quitting methods.
Strategies for Smoking Cessation: Online course for physicians from the American College of Chest Physicians; covers impact of tobacco dependence, treatment, relapse prevention, and special populations of tobacco users.
The UK National Smoking Cessation Conference: For healthcare professionals and specialists looking to treat smokers more effectively.
Tobacco Addiction Treatment Poster Session: Papers presented at recent health conference on interventions, survey results, evaluation, strategies for success.
Tobacco Cessation Guideline: Materials available to professionals and consumers.
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.