Objective—To describe the development and preliminary results from a community based certification model for training in tobacco cessation skills in Arizona. Design—A programme evaluation using both quantitative pre-post measures and qualitative methods. Setting—Arizona’s comprehensive tobacco control programme of state funded, community based local projects and their community partners providi...

Objectives Medical students represent a primary target for tobacco cessation training. This study assessed the prevalence of medical students' tobacco use, attitudes, clinical skills, and tobacco-related curricula in two countries, the US and Italy, with known baseline disparities in hopes of identifying potential corrective interventions. Methods From September to December 2013, medical stud...

A collection of USPSTF recommendation statements published in AFP is available at http://www. aafp.org/afp/uspstf. Summary of Recommendations and Evidence The USPSTF recommends that clinicians ask all adults about tobacco use, advise them to stop using tobacco, and provide behavioral interventions and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved pharmacotherapy for cessation to adults who u...

BACKGROUND This article presents findings from qualitative interviews conducted as part of a research study that trained Acupuncture, Massage, and Chiropractic practitioners' in Arizona, US, to implement evidence-based tobacco cessation brief interventions (BI) in their routine practice. The qualitative phase of the overall study aimed to assess: the impact of tailored training in evidence-base...

The article, “Tobacco Cessation in Primary Care: Maximizing Intervention Strategies”1 does a fine job of summarizing the recommended, yet often not implemented, practices for provider-based smoking cessation. There is no doubt that smoking cessation will begin to improve the health of the individual smoker by decreasing the risk of tobacco-related disease within a short period of time.2,3 The i...

Low income adults with substance use disorders (SUDs) have a high prevalence of tobacco use and often limited access to tobacco cessation treatment. This study examines the relationship between low-income SUD patient census (i.e., percentage of patients whose treatment costs are covered by Medicaid and Federal block grants) and SUD programs' availability of three evidence-based tobacco cessatio...

BACKGROUND This paper describes a pioneering effort to introduce tobacco cessation into India's undergraduate medical college curriculum. This is the first ever attempt to fully integrate tobacco control across all years of medical college in any low and middle income country. The development, pretesting, and piloting of an innovative modular tobacco curriculum are discussed as well as challeng...

1Nicotine Dependence Service, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; 2Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; 3Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; 4Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Correspondence: Dr Peter Selby, Nicotine Dependence Service, Addictions Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 100 Stokes...

OBJECTIVE: To implement and evaluate the impact of a semester-long, online, 1-credit elective course designed to promote tobacco cessation counseling proficiency among health professions students. DESIGN: Online technology was used to create an elective course devoted to tobacco cessation, modeled closely after the Rx for Change curriculum. Students from pharmacy, nursing, and other health disc...

CLINICAL CHALLENGE Patients are not always forthcoming about their tobacco use. Smoking and other forms of tobacco use have serious health consequences, and many dermatologic diseases and treatments are negatively affected by tobacco exposure. When a patient does not disclose their full tobacco history, the dermatologist can miss a valuable opportunity to counsel the patient on tobacco cessatio...