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 Effectiveness of Interventions to Help People Stop Smoking [Recommended] Description: Evaluates different methods and gives recommendations. (bmj.com) |
| Postgraduate Medicine: Nicotine Dependence symposium [Recommended] Description: 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. (postgradmed.com) |
| ACP Observer Nov 96 Description: American College of Physicians (ACP) message to its chapters: help end smoking where you live. (acponline.org) |
| Acupuncture to Stop Smoking Description: Review of published scientific studies on use of acupuncture to stop smoking. (jr2.ox.ac.uk) |
| AHCPR Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guidelines Description: Reprint. (www1.umn.edu) |
| ASAM and Nicotine Description: Scientific analysis and policy recommendations on tobacco products, from the American Society for Addiction Medicine (asam.org) |
| Dental Cessation Program Responsibilities Description: Responsibilities and tasks for different health professionals in a dental office, including dentist, dental hygienist, dental assistance, receptionist, in a tobacco use program. (www1.umn.edu) |
| EndSmoking.org Description: 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. (endsmoking.org) |
| Helping Smokers Quit: Ask, Advise, Assist Description: A guide for primary care clinicians. (surgeongeneral.gov) |
| Is Bupropion an Effective Treatment for Smoking Cessation? Description: 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. (medicine.uiowa.edu) |
| Lecture Outlines from Tobacco Topics in Dentistry Description: 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. (www1.umn.edu) |
| NCI Protocol for a Dental Office Description: Tobacco use cessation protocol for dental offices from NCI. (www1.umn.edu) |
| Nursing Center for Tobacco Intervention Description: Educates nurses in delivery of tobacco cessation interventions. (con.ohio-state.edu) |
| Occupational Therapy and Smoking Prevention and Cessation Description: NYU Department of Occupational Therapy materials. (nyu.edu) |
| Oral Cancer, Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Description: Poster session from health conference; abstracts included. (apha.confex.com) |
| Reducing Tobacco Use: The Quest to Quit Description: Ouelines current approaches and policy recommendations for helping smokers quit. (cfah.org) |
| Smoke-Free Families: Interventions to Stop Smoking During and Beyond Pregnancy Description: How to help pregnant patients quit smoking. (smokefreefamilies.org) |
| Smoking Cessation and Pregnancy. Description: Slides from college lecture outline prevalence, strategies for cessation, effects on fetus and infant health, screening guidelines. (pitt.edu) |
| Smoking Cessation Approaches and Options Description: 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. (speakerskit.chestnet.org) |
| Smoking Cessation: Clinical Guide Description: 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. (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| Stopping Smoking Description: Review of scientific literature on smoking costs, quitting methods. (jr2.ox.ac.uk) |
| Strategies for Smoking Cessation Description: 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. (chestnet.org) |
| The UK National Smoking Cessation Conference Description: For healthcare professionals and specialists looking to treat smokers more effectively. (uknscc.org) |
| Tobacco Addiction Treatment Poster Session Description: Papers presented at recent health conference on interventions, survey results, evaluation, strategies for success. (apha.confex.com) |
| Tobacco Cessation Guideline Description: Materials available to professionals and consumers. (surgeongeneral.gov) |
| Tobacco-Cessation Patient Counseling Description: 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. (acpm.org) |
| Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence -- A Systems Approach Description: A guide for health care administrators, insurers, managed care organizations, and purchasers. Describes the essentials for supporting tobacco cessation throughout organizations. (surgeongeneral.gov) |
| Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians Description: Surgeon General provides clinicians with key findings on process, products, and stages of quitting. (surgeongeneral.gov) |
| Why Be Involved / Barriers Description: Why oral health care professionals should be involved in tobacco cessation; major barriers to becoming involved. (www1.umn.edu) |
