Smoking cessation: physician responsibility and government's role

Chapter 9. Role of the Physician in Smoking Cessation

Smoking and smoking cessation: a major role for the respiratory physician.

Smoking is now universally recognized as the leading cause of two of the most frequent respiratory diseases, bronchial carcinoma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Despite this evidence, the problems associated with nicotine addiction and smoking cessation occupy a relatively small space in The Journal and at our Annual Congress, which suggests that respiratory physicians are not...

Physician-based Smoking Cessation Counseling in Serbia

This study examined physician attitudes and practices pertaining to patient counseling about smoking in Belgrade, Serbia. Data were collected using a cross-sectional survey of 86 physicians at multiple health care facilities. Approximately 74% of physicians agreed that they should routinely ask patients about their smoking habits and 79% agreed that physicians should routinely advise their smok...

Cigarette smoking and the responsibility of the hospital physician.

1 t is right that this conference which has demonHELPING OUR PATENTS TOP SMOKING strated so many aspects of the care of chest and heart disease should devote one session to their commonest preventable cause-cigarette smoking. In this matter we cannot leave prevention to the Public Health authorities. They indeed can legislate for clean air in our cities-but this is of limited use if half our ci...

Effects of Smoking and Smoking Cessation and Smoking Cessation Intervention

The threeto four-decade lag between peak in smoking prevalence and subsequent peak in smoking-related mortality was a major factor affecting public awareness of the substantial health hazards of tobacco use in developed countries (Lopez et al., 1994). This factor may be applicable to periodontal disease if this disease is chronically affected by smoking epidemic. We searched the literature elec...