PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - P. J. Stewart
AU  - W. W. Rosser
TI  - The impact of routine advice on smoking cessation from family physicians
DP  - 1982 May 01
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 1051--1054
VI  - 126
IP  - 9
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/126/9/1051.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/126/9/1051.full
SO  - CMAJ1982 May 01; 126
AB  - Cigarette smoking continues to be a major health problem. Therefore, physicians have been asked to advise all their patients on the hazards of smoking. A controlled trial was undertaken to measure the impact of family physicians' advice to cigarette smokers during a routine office visit. No significant differences were found in the three measures used to determine outcome--desire to stop smoking, an attempt to stop and success in stopping--between the control and intervention groups. These results are discussed in relation to the health belief model, and suggestions are made on how to increase the impact family physicians could have on smoking cessation to their practices.