Effectiveness of Interventions to Help People Stop Smoking - Evaluates different methods and gives recommendations.

Postgraduate Medicine: Nicotine Dependence symposium - 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.

ACP Observer Nov 96 - American College of Physicians (ACP) message to its chapters: help end smoking where you live.
Meta Description: [ ACP to chapters: help end smoking where you live. ACP Observer Nov 96. ]

Acupuncture to Stop Smoking - Review of published scientific studies on use of acupuncture to stop smoking.
Meta Description: [ A monthly newsletter about evidence-based health care; top source for such information on the net ]

AHCPR Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guidelines - Reprint.

404 ASAM and Nicotine - Scientific analysis and policy recommendations on tobacco products, from the American Society for Addiction Medicine

Dental Cessation Program Responsibilities - Responsibilities and tasks for different health professionals in a dental office, including dentist, dental hygienist, dental assistance, receptionist, in a tobacco use program.

EndSmoking.org - 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.

Helping Smokers Quit: Ask, Advise, Assist - A guide for primary care clinicians.

404 Is Bupropion an Effective Treatment for Smoking Cessation? - 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.

Lecture Outlines from Tobacco Topics in Dentistry - 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.

NCI Protocol for a Dental Office - Tobacco use cessation protocol for dental offices from NCI.

404 Nursing Center for Tobacco Intervention - Educates nurses in delivery of tobacco cessation interventions.

404 Occupational Therapy and Smoking Prevention and Cessation - NYU Department of Occupational Therapy materials.

Oral Cancer, Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation - Poster session from health conference; abstracts included.

Reducing Tobacco Use: The Quest to Quit - Ouelines current approaches and policy recommendations for helping smokers quit.

Smoke-Free Families: Interventions to Stop Smoking During and Beyond Pregnancy - How to help pregnant patients quit smoking.

Smoking Cessation and Pregnancy. - Slides from college lecture outline prevalence, strategies for cessation, effects on fetus and infant health, screening guidelines.

Smoking Cessation Approaches and Options - 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.

Stopping Smoking - Review of scientific literature on smoking costs, quitting methods.
Meta Description: [ A monthly newsletter about evidence-based health care; top source for such information on the net ]

Strategies for Smoking Cessation - 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.

The UK National Smoking Cessation Conference - For healthcare professionals and specialists looking to treat smokers more effectively.
Meta Description: [ The UK National Smoking Cessation Conference - UKNSCC. Stop Smoking services - smoking cessation resource for advisors and stop smoking counsellors and researchers. Smoking cessation services. www.uknscc.org ]

Tobacco Addiction Treatment Poster Session - Papers presented at recent health conference on interventions, survey results, evaluation, strategies for success.

Tobacco Cessation Guideline - Materials available to professionals and consumers.

Tobacco-Cessation Patient Counseling - 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.

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence -- A Systems Approach - A guide for health care administrators, insurers, managed care organizations, and purchasers. Describes the essentials for supporting tobacco cessation throughout organizations.

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians - Surgeon General provides clinicians with key findings on process, products, and stages of quitting.

Why Be Involved / Barriers - Why oral health care professionals should be involved in tobacco cessation; major barriers to becoming involved.