Home >> Health >> Addictions >> Substance Abuse >> Tobacco >> Quitting >> Materials for Health Professionals ACP Observer Nov 96 American College of Physicians (ACP) message to its chapters: help end smoking where you live. 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. 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. Nursing Center for Tobacco Intervention Educates nurses in delivery of tobacco cessation interventions. AHCPR Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guidelines Reprint. Effectiveness of Interventions to Help People Stop Smoking Evaluates different methods and gives recommendations. Tobacco Addiction Treatment Poster Session Papers presented at recent health conference on interventions, survey results, evaluation, strategies for success. 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. Tobacco-Cessation Patient Counseling Practice policy statement from the American College of Preventive Medicine. Covers: burden of suffering, description of preventive measures, evidence of effectiveness of preventive measures, public policy considerations, recommendations for other health care groups, rationale for physician counseling, and recommendations. Why Be Involved / Barriers Why oral health care professionals should be involved in tobacco cessation; major barriers to becoming involved.
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