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Effective Clinical Tobacco Intervention Therapeutics Initiative (University of British Columbia)

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Therapeutics Letter 21 considers a clinician-based approach to helping patients quit smoking. Conclusions: The challenge for health care professionals is to organize medical care so that the smoking status of all patients is identified and followed-up; motivate smokers to stop and youth to avoid the addiction; offer to the smokers who are ready to quit behavioural and pharmacological treatment, and follow-up. The benefit is that 8-12% of the clinician's smoking patients will stop smoking annually, rather than the 4-6% who stop with no intervention (absolute increase 6%, number needed to treat to benefit one patient, 17 per year). The long-term, cumulative impact of physician-based tobacco intervention on smoking prevalence makes it one of the leading options in tobacco control.

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Title
Effective Clinical Tobacco Intervention
Alternate Title
Therapeutics Letter 21
Creator
Therapeutics Initiative (University of British Columbia)
Date Issued
1997-10
Description
Therapeutics Letter 21 considers a clinician-based approach to helping patients quit smoking. Conclusions: The challenge for health care professionals is to organize medical care so that the smoking status of all patients is identified and followed-up; motivate smokers to stop and youth to avoid the addiction; offer to the smokers who are ready to quit behavioural and pharmacological treatment, and follow-up. The benefit is that 8-12% of the clinician's smoking patients will stop smoking annually, rather than the 4-6% who stop with no intervention (absolute increase 6%, number needed to treat to benefit one patient, 17 per year). The long-term, cumulative impact of physician-based tobacco intervention on smoking prevalence makes it one of the leading options in tobacco control.
Subject
Adolescent; Adult; Behavior, Addictive; Nicotine Chewing Gum; Physicians; Smokers; Tobacco Use Cessation; Tobacco Use Cessation Devices
Genre
Other
Type
Text
Language
eng
Notes
The UBC TI is funded by the BC Ministry of Health to provide evidence-based information about drug therapy. We neither formulate nor adjudicate provincial drug policies.
Date Available
2023-06-20
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0433600
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/85010
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Department of
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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