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Workplace Tobacco Policies and Smoking Cessation Practices of Physicians
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Objective: To further our understanding of the workplace smoking policies and smoking cessation practices of physicians in Nigeria.
Design: Cross-sectional survey distributed to 619 physicians practicing in two teaching hospitals in southwestern Nigeria.
Participants: Three-hundred-seventy-three physicians who returned completed surveys.
Main Outcome Measures: Physician's self-reported workplace smoking policies, attitudes toward smoking cessation, and use of recommended ...
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Workplace Tobacco Policies and Smoking Cessation Practices of Physicians
Journal of the National Medical Association
; Objective: To further our understanding of the workplace smoking policies and smoking cessation practices of physicians in Nigeria. Design: Cross-sectional survey distributed to 619 physicians practicing in two teaching hospitals in southwestern Nigeria. Participants: Three-hundred-seventy-three
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Counseling about smoking cessation with young patients.(Tips)
American Family Physician
; Smoking tends to start during the adolescent years in the United States. Studies have shown that the earlier in life children and adolescents try cigarettes, the more likely they are to become regular smokers. Thus, preventing and reducing tobacco use among children and adolescents can provide
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Managed Care Scores Poorly on Smoking Cessation.
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; Even though Dr. Sanne Magnan works for an HMO that makes smoking cessation efforts a priority, convincing patients to kick their habit isn't getting easier. She remembers talking to a medical resident recently who was ruffled by the indifference patients showed to his advice to quit smoking. This
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Smoking Cessation Now.
Family Practice News
; It is no longer appropriate for physicians to wonder if it is their job to address their patients' tobacco use or if they will be directly reimbursed for such work. It is time for them to turn to this question instead: What works? New prevention and cessation treatments, medications, and approaches
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Selected annotated bibliography. (Featured CME Topic: Smoking Cessation).
Southern Medical Journal
; ... Smoking cessation. Gerontology 2001; 47:236-240 INTERVENTION * Brandon TH: Behavioral tobacco cessation treatments: yesterday's news or tomorrow's headlines? J Clin Oncol 2001; 19 (Suppl 18) :64S-68S. Behavioral treatments for smoking cessation are as effective ...
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Smoking Cessation: What Works?
OB GYN News
; It is no longer appropriate for physicians to wonder if it is their job to address patients' tobacco use or if they will be directly reimbursed for such work. It is time for them to turn to this question instead: What works? New prevention and cessation treatments, medications, and approaches have
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Assessing the Institutional Approach to Implementing Smoking Cessation Practice Guidelines in Veterans Health Administration Facilities
Military Medicine
; National smoking cessation guidelines include recommended strategies for providers and health care organizations, but they offer little guidance on how to structure care. We conducted a cross-sectional survey at 40 Veterans Health Administration facilities, to describe the structure of smoking
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Effectiveness of physicians-in-training counseling for smoking cessation in African Americans
Journal of the National Medical Association
; This study examined the effectiveness of smoking cessation counseling by physicians-intraining (residents) with African-American patients. One hundred fifty-eight family and internal medicine residents at a large urban public general hospital participated in the study; two thirds of the residents
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Pharmacologic treatment to help with smoking cessation. (Tips from Other Journals).
American Family Physician
; An estimated 70 percent of persons who smoke have a desire to quit completely. Smoking is the primary preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Therefore, physicians should get involved in encouraging and facilitating smoking cessation. Studies have shown that even brief
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Medicare coverage of smoking cessation. (Featured CME Topic: Smoking Cessation).
Southern Medical Journal
; Today's older smokers grew up in an era in which advertisers promoted smoking; the adverse effects of smoking had not yet been established. There are significant benefits to smoking cessation, even after 30 or more years of regular smoking. Older smokers may be less likely to perceive the health
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