BACKGROUND Tobacco use remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the US. Effective tobacco cessation aids are widely available, yet underutilized. Tobacco cessation brief interventions (BIs) increase quit rates. However, BI training has focused on conventional medical providers, overlooking other health practitioners with regular contact with tobacco users. The 2007 National Healt...

Article 14 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control recommends provision of evidence-based support for tobacco cessation. However, it is being implemented very slowly in most countries, so that by 2014 only a small minority of the world’s tobacco users had access to appropriate cessation support, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). This editorial, endorsed by more than 70 gl...

BACKGROUND North East India has a high prevalence of tobacco consumption, but only few individualsseek help for tobacco cessation. Impact of community based tobacco cessation intervention in this part needs more research. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective analysis was done on the dataset from a community-based tobacco cessation intervention pilot project conducted in Guwahati metro during 2...

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 pro...

Tobacco use is a risk factor for oral cancer, oral mucosal lesions, periodontal disease and impaired healing after periodontal treatment, gingival recession, and coronal and root caries. Available evidence suggests that the risks of oral diseases increase with greater use of tobacco and that quitting smoking can result in decreased risk. The magnitude of the effect of tobacco on the occurrence ...

Population-based indicators of smoking cessation have stalled in recent years. This commentary focuses attention on tobacco control policies that can be used to stimulate renewed consumer demand for smoking cessation. Tobacco use as reflected in population trends is the product of the interaction of three broad categories of factors: agent, host, and environment. Government policies are an impo...

OBJECTIVE To assess the Nigerian dental students' present effort at tobacco cessation assistance using the simple stepwise 4As model. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of all the final level dental students in the Nigerian premier dental schools was carried out using a pretested self administered questionnaire. RESULTS The response rate was 98.9%. Majority (95.6%) of the respondents routinel...

BACKGROUND Few studies compare mood in tobacco cessation patients with mood in continuing smokers and then estimate the effects of a tobacco cessation program according to status of mood. We investigated whether mood in patients (n = 7) dependent on tobacco improved through the standard Japanese 12-week program for smoking cessation comparing smokers (n = 11) and nonsmokers (n = 16). METHODS ...

Adolescent tobacco use is decreasing in West Virginia, a state which features the Not on Tobacco (NOT) and RAZE programs. This manuscript gives an overview of recent studies in adolescent tobacco cessation, what works and what doesn't. More research is needed to improve cessation rates in adolescents.