Despite the reality that smoking remains the most important preventable cause of death and disability, most clinicians underperform in helping smokers quit. Of the 46 million current smokers in the United States, 70% say they would like to quit, but only a small fraction are able to do so on their own because nicotine is so highly addictive. One third to one half of all smokers die prematurely....

INTRODUCTION Behavioral support improves smokers' chances of quitting, but quit rates are typically lower for smokers supported by "community practitioners" for whom smoking cessation is a small part of their job than for those supported by "specialist practitioners" for whom it is the main role. This article examined the factors that might contribute to this. METHOD A total of 573 specialist...

AIMS Little is known about the extent to which quit attempts are planned ahead or initiated immediately following a sudden decision to quit. This is important because if most smokers quit abruptly, rather than plan ahead, this could impact heavily upon recommendations to health care professionals on the kind of smoking cessation advice they deliver to patients. This paper aims to address this g...

The objective of the study is to investigate the success rate of quit attempts and identify factors associated with success or failure of quit attempts in a quit smoking clinic. A cohort study was conducted with 495 smokers who enrolled in a quit smoking clinic from 2005 to 2008. The factors leading to quit smoking successfully were "being Malay", "having high blood pressure" "type of Nicotine ...

BACKGROUND Current evidence-based smoking cessation treatments in the UK are only offered to smokers ready to quit within 30 days. This study reports the experiences of smokers who are not ready to quit and explores the types of intervention approaches that might engage them. METHODS Five focus groups were conducted with smokers who had no plans to quit within 30 days (n = 32, 44 % female). V...

Background: The smokers who use supportive programs have a greater chance to quit smoking. Smoking cessation recommendation is one of the most important prevention and treatment methods mentioned in care guidelines provided for patients with acute coronary syndrome. Aim: The main objective of this study is to determine the effects of training-counseling programs on smoking cessation in patients...

AIMS To examine the use and role of planned quit attempts by smokers and their impact on abstinence. DESIGN Retrospective, using longitudinal data from the Ontario Tobacco Survey. SETTING Ontario, Canada. PARTICIPANTS A total of 551 adult smokers who reported having made a quit attempt during 2007-08. MEASUREMENTS Reported planning of the most recent quit attempt (i.e. unplanned or plan...

primary ovarian carcinoid tumors of the ovary are rare and represent less than 0.1% of ovarian malignancy. one of its subtypes is the strumal carcinoid in which the thyroid tissue is seen in intimate association with carcinoid tumor. we here report a 47-year-old woman with strumal carcinoid of the right ovary presented with cessation of menstrual periods in the past 3 months and was referred du...