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• ACP Observer Nov 96 - American College of Physicians (ACP) message to its chapters: help end smoking where you live.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Acupuncture to Stop Smoking - Review of published scientific studies on use of acupuncture to stop smoking.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• AHCPR Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guidelines - Reprint.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Dental Cessation Program Responsibilities - Responsibilities and tasks for different health professionals in a dental office, including dentist, dental hygienist, dental assistance, receptionist, in a tobacco use program.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Effectiveness of Interventions to Help People Stop Smoking - Evaluates different methods and gives recommendations.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• EndSmoking.org - An independent consortium of leaders in the treatment of tobacco dependence whose mission is to lower barriers to broader utilization of cessation therapy through education and advocacy; materials for patients, health professionals, and employers.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Helping Smokers Quit: Ask, Advise, Assist - A guide for primary care clinicians.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Is Bupropion an Effective Treatment for Smoking Cessation? - Slide presentation: smoking and what it's costing Americans; pharmacology of buproprion; review of the literature; cessation results, safety and adverse effects; other medications; NRT; cost; recommendations for clinical practice; bibliography.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Lecture Outlines from Tobacco Topics in Dentistry - Lectures given to dental students. Prevalence and the systemic and local effects of smoking and spit tobacco use; smoking as a cause of periodontal diseases; effects of tobacco use on dental treatment results; nicotine addiction; stages of change; clinical interventions; use of nicotine and non-nicotine pharmacologic therapy; tobacco industry influence; role of oral health care providers in policy and media advocacy.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• NCI Protocol for a Dental Office - Tobacco use cessation protocol for dental offices from NCI.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Nursing Center for Tobacco Intervention - Educates nurses in delivery of tobacco cessation interventions.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Occupational Therapy and Smoking Prevention and Cessation - NYU Department of Occupational Therapy materials.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Oral Cancer, Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation - Poster session from health conference; abstracts included.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Postgraduate Medicine: Nicotine Dependence symposium - Three papers from a medical symposium. Prevention is the ultimate "penicillin" for lung cancer; cessation is still the best medicine. Drug therapy to aid in cessation -- tips on maximizing patient's chances for success. Counselling patients to quit: what to say, when to say it.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Smoke-Free Families: Interventions to Stop Smoking During and Beyond Pregnancy - How to help pregnant patients quit smoking.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Smoking Cessation and Pregnancy. - Slides from college lecture outline prevalence, strategies for cessation, effects on fetus and infant health, screening guidelines.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Smoking Cessation Consumer Tools Kit - "Two Questions, Three Minutes, A Lifetime of Difference for Your Patients"
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Smoking Cessation: Clinical Guide - Guidelines developed by AHCPR and CDC to assist clinicians, cessation specialists, and health care administrators, insurers, and purchasers in delvering effective smoking cessation interventions. These recommendations were made as a result of an exhaustive and systematic review and analysis of the scientific literature.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Stopping Smoking - Review of scientific literature on smoking costs, quitting methods.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Tobacco Addiction Treatment Poster Session - Papers presented at recent health conference on interventions, survey results, evaluation, strategies for success.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Tobacco-Cessation Patient Counseling - Practice policy statement from the American College of Preventive Medicine. Covers: burden of suffering, description of preventive measures, evidence of effectiveness of preventive measures, public policy considerations, recommendations for other health care groups, rationale for physician counseling, and recommendations.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence -- A Systems Approach - A guide for health care administrators, insurers, managed care organizations, and purchasers. Describes the essentials for supporting tobacco cessation throughout organizations.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)

• Why Be Involved / Barriers - Why oral health care professionals should be involved in tobacco cessation; major barriers to becoming involved.
  (Added: Mon Jun 21 2004)