Office-based smoking cessation assistance is a useful tobacco control intervention strategy. Monograph 5 presents what interventions work, how to recruit and motivate clinicians to provide advice, and how to deliver smoking cessation assistance within the health care system.
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National Cancer Institute. Tobacco and the Clinician: Interventions for Medical and Dental Practice. Tobacco Control Monograph No. 5. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. NIH Pub. No. 94-3693, January 1994.
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Chapters and key topics covered within each chapter are listed below. Chapters generally include an introductory section, details on methodology, a chapter summary, research needs, and a reference list.
- Foreword (PDF, 502 KB)
- Preface (PDF, 68 KB)
- Acknowledgments (PDF, 51 KB)
- Chapter 1. Strategies for Office-Based Smoking Cessation Assistance (PDF, 374 KB)
- Overview of Office-Based Smoking Cessation Assistance
- Trends in Physicians’ Smoking Behavior and Patterns of Advice to Quit
- The Health Professional's Responsibility in Smoking Cessation: Strategies for Office and Community
- Chapter 2. Recruitment and Training of Practicing Physicians, Dentists, and Their Office Staffs (PDF, 383 KB)
- Effects of Training Family Physicians in a Comprehensive Smoking Cessation Intervention
- Doctors Helping Smokers: Development of a Clinic-Based Smoking Intervention System
- Prompting Smoking Cessation in Family Practice
- Smoking Cessation in Primary Care Practice: Summary of Results From the Quit for Life Project
- Physician and Dentist Interventions For Smoking Cessation
- The Tobacco Reduction and Cancer Control (TRACC) Program: Team Approaches to Counseling in Medical and Dental Settings
- Chapter 3. Training of Physicians in Training (PDF, 357 KB)
- Interventions for Smoking Prevention and Cessation
- Effects of Two Realistic Interventions To Teach Smoking Cessation
- Counseling to Primary Care Residents: A Randomized Trial
- Chapter 4. Special Practice Settings (PDF, 315 KB)
- Pediatricians’ Role in Smoking Prevention and Cessation
- Smoking Intervention by Providers of Health Care for Women
- A Physician- and Dentist-Delivered Smoking Cessation Intervention for Head and Neck Cancer Patients
- Medical Advice as a Communication About Risks of Smoking and Benefits of Quitting
- Chapter 5. Dissemination, Facilitation, and Maintenance of Office-Based Cessation Assistance (PDF, 238 KB)
- Smoking Cessation as a Clinic Quality Improvement Project
- Computerized Reminder System To Aid Physicians in Assessment and Counseling of Patients Who Smoke
- Physicians’ and Dentists’ Roles in COMMIT-The Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation
- Dissemination of Physician-Based Smoking Cessation Interventions
- Clinical Interventions in Tobacco Control: A National Cancer Institute Training Program For Health Care Providers