During the last 5 years, a program run by the medical association in British Columbia has
recruited 23% of the province's general practitioners (GPs) to take an active, systematic …

Objective: To obtain a baseline measure of tobacco con-trol activities carried out by
physicians and of tobacco control policies and practices in physician offices. Design: All …

IN 1997 THE DIRECTION DE LA SANTÉ PUBLIQUE de Montréal-Centre initiated
“Physicians Taking Action Against Smoking,” a 5-year intervention program to improve the …

In the last few years we have become increasingly aware of the limited value of intensive
smoking intervention programs which reach relatively few smokers.'Most smokers who have …

Like other chronic conditions, nicotine dependence offers both challenges and rewards to
clinicians. The treatment of this condition frequently requires experience in pharmacology …

OBJECTIVE: To compare tobacco control practices of physicians and their staff in
Intervention communities with those in Comparison communities of the Community …

There is a large discrepancy between apparent potential and actual practice of smoking
cessation activities by physicians. This paper describes the 2-year results of an integrated …

• To address the problem of recruiting physicians to deliver smoking cessation interventions,
Doctors Helping Smokers included a trial of physician recruitment strategies. In round 1 of …

Despite decades of coaxing, American clinicians in large numbers continue to neglect the
leading preventable cause of illness and death in our societytobacco use. Fewer than 60 …

Studies suggest that the absence of a systematic approach is a barrier to the provision of
tobacco cessation counseling services in clinical practice. A systematic intervention was …