Smoking rates in people with serious mental illness (SMI) are disproportionately high compared to the general population. It is a leading contributor to the early mortality in this population. Smoking cessation rates are low in this group, though patients are motivated to quit. Unfortunately, health care providers do not always prioritize smoking cessation for this population. This review provi...

BACKGROUND Varenicline is now very useful medication for cessation; however, there is only little result of researches with varenicline for cessation of hospitalized patients. This research attempted to analyze the cessation effect of medication and compliance of hospitalized patients. METHODS This research included data for 52 patients who were prescribed varenicline among 280 patients who w...

BACKGROUND There has been a call for comprehensive cancer care that gives greater consideration to changing lifestyle risk factors such as smoking to improve prognosis and long-term health. Cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship offer challenges and opportunities ("teachable moments") to promote smoking cessation. METHODS This review provides a rationale for the importance of smoking c...

Introduction Smoking is the number one preventable cause of death in the United States. Under the Affordable Care Act, Kansas Medicaid covers all seven FDA-approved smoking cessation therapies. However, it is estimated only 3% of Kansas Medicaid smokers use treatment compared to the national estimate of 10%. The objective is to determine systemic barriers in place that prevent optimal utilizati...

BACKGROUND In the late 1990s, American tobacco companies began offering limited cessation assistance to smokers by posting links on their company websites to government-sponsored smoking cessation resources. Philip Morris USA (PM) went further, funding youth cessation programs and creating its own online cessation program, QuitAssist. We explore why PM entered the cessation arena, and describe ...

Objective: This study aimed to examine the readability levels and contents of Turkish websites on smoking cessation. Method: A search was performed in August 2019 by typing word “smoking cessation” Google engine (https://www.google.com). Commercial websites, advertisement chat forum magazine containing only images or videos, with less than 10 sentences were excluded from study. The cessation de...

People who smoke find it difficult to stop. Of the smokers in USA who try to quit, only 2±5% succeeds without any smoking cessation intervention [1]. In Europe, these figures are even lower. Smoking cessation is an overall health concern in the general population, for healthy smokers but especially for patients who suffer from diseases associated with smoking like cancer, COPD, diabetes and hea...