How Physicians Can Help Their Patients Quit Smoking: A Practical Guide
AUTOR(ES)
Prochazka, Allan V.
RESUMO
We describe practical, effective, office-based methods for physicians to use to assist patients to stop smoking that do not require special training or support personnel. Brief counseling achieves smoking cessation in a small percent of well patients but is more effective in patients with smoking-related illnesses or abnormal laboratory test results. Routine prescribing of nicotine gum without participation by the patient in a smoking-cessation program does not increase smoking cessation, and we do not recommend it. The prevention of smoking relapse can probably be enhanced by scheduling follow-up office visits after the patient has quit. Failure to quit on initial attempts should not discourage physicians and patients, since most successful abstainers usually must make several attempts to quit. We outline for physicians two approaches, one brief and one more intensive, to help patients stop smoking.
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