Tobacco use continues to be the leading cause of death and disease in the United States; more than 440,000 people in this country die of tobacco-related diseases each year (CDC 2002a). Fortunately, cessation of tobacco use can reduce the risk of tobacco-related disease, even among those who have used tobacco for decades (USDHHS 2000a, USDHHS 2000b, Peto et al. 2000, Taylor et al. 2002). Cessati...

The global community, through the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), is seeking to develop Guidelines for the implementation of Article 14 of the Convention, which deals with support for smoking cessation. This development requires models of how best to develop infrastructure and measures to promote and support cessation around the world. This special is...

To account for tobacco users' excess health care costs and encourage cessation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) allowed insurers to impose a surcharge on tobacco users' premiums for plans offered on the health insurance exchanges, or Marketplaces. Low-income tax credits for Marketplace coverage were based on premiums for non-tobacco users, which means that these credits did not offset any surchar...

INTRODUCTION Dental visits represent an opportunity to identify and help patients quit smoking, yet dental settings remain an untapped venue for treatment of tobacco dependence. The purpose of this analysis was to assess factors that may influence patterns of tobacco-use-related practice among a national sample of dental providers. METHODS We surveyed a representative sample of general dentis...

Tobacco use, especially smoking, poses an enormous threat to public health. Research indicates tobacco use is linked many illnesses and premature death. It also has unhealthy consequences in non-smokers through second-hand exposure. Primary care clinicians have the “golden opportunities” intervene during office visit encounters. This study examined of iPad educational application cessation coun...

OBJECTIVE To summarise the evidence on adolescent and young adult prevention and cessation, and provide future directions for research. DATA SOURCES Data were collected from published literature. Searches for adolescent prevention were conducted using PubMed, PsycInfo, and ERIC; and for cessation, PubMed, and two major reviews that span January 1978 to May 2002. PubMed, PsychInfo, and SCCI we...

OBJECTIVES Tobacco is an important risk factor for tuberculosis (TB) infection and TB disease. Identifying tobacco users and providing tobacco cessation services is expected to reduce the burden of TB. We assessed tobacco use among presumptive TB patients attending a tertiary hospital and their willingness to attend tobacco cessation services. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted amo...

Mauritius is one of the twelve sub-Saharan countries participating in the African Tobacco Situation Analysis initiative, supported by the International Development and Research Centre and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The need to survey health professionals on their knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices with respect to tobacco use and smoking cessation was identified as Mauritius...

ObjectivesTo characterize (a) tobacco cessation content, delivery, and assessment methods, (b) faculty perceptions of content adequacy, (c) interest in enhancing curricular as a result pharmacists’ new, expanding role prescribing medications.MethodsOne member responsible for teaching cessation-related at each college school pharmacy was invited to participate national, web-based survey. Survey ...

PURPOSE To identify predictors that influence tobacco smoking cessation among Jordanian college students and to test the utility of the Trans-Theoretical Model for future cessation programs in this population. METHOD A cross-sectional survey of randomly selected college students (18 to 22 years of age) who were smokers was conducted at two Jordanian universities. The surveys included the: Tob...