- ACP Observer Nov 96
American College of Physicians (ACP) message to its chapters: help end smoking where you live.
http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/nov96/smoking.htm
- Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use
Includes prevention as well as cessation. Summary of research on effectiveness of counseling by health professionals.
http://www.cts.com/browse/drcarr/Telemedical/CWS/tobacco.html
- 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.
http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/respncbl.html
- 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.
http://www.endsmoking.org/
- 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.
http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/pa/sresrch/Beisel/BeiselJ/
- 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.
http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/didactic.html
- 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.
http://www.postgradmed.com/issues/1998/12_98/symp_int.htm
- Smoking Cessation and Pregnancy.
Slides from college lecture outline prevalence, strategies for cessation, effects on fetus and infant health, screening guidelines.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/pc0211/index.htm
- Smoking Cessation Approaches and Options
Presentation-ready slides on smoking, myths and facts, model for quitting, findings and recommendations, tips for helping patients quit, smoking cessation methods.
http://speakerskit.chestnet.org/04/ppt_pages/c_set/c_index.htm
- Smoking Cessation: Clinical Guide
Guidelines developed by AHCPR and CDC to assist clinicians, cessation specialists, and health care administrators, insurers, and purchasers in delvering effective smoking cessation interventions. These recommendations were made as a result of an exhaustive and systematic review and analysis of the scientific literature.
http://text.nlm.nih.gov/ftrs/dbaccess/smkc
- Tobacco Addiction Treatment Poster Session
Papers presented at recent health conference on interventions, survey results, evaluation, strategies for success.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/130am/techprogram/session_8749.htm
- Tobacco Facts for the Clinician
Dental Oncology Education Program (DOEP) report covers nicotine addiction; clinical intervention; cigarettes, cigars, and spit tobacco; secondhand smoke; tobacco promotion; US and Texas statistics.
http://www.nospit.com/TFacts.html
- Why Be Involved / Barriers
Why oral health care professionals should be involved in tobacco cessation; major barriers to becoming involved.
http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/whyinvlv.html
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