How to Help Your Patients Stop Smoking: A Manual for Physicians

Provides physicians, nurses, other health care workers and their associates with the necessary information to institute smoking cessation techniques in their practices. The interventions described are simple and brief. Chapters: create a smoke-free office; identify all smoking patients; develop patient smoking cessation plans; and provide follow-up support. Appendices: responses to patients' common questions and concerns; smoking cessation tips; cessation materials; publications without tobacco advertising; selected references; clinical interventions to prevent tobacco use by children and adolescents, and much more.