Lost Opportunities for Smoking Cessation Among Adults With Diabetes in Florida (2007) and Maryland (2006)

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Carter-Pokras, Olivia D. ; Johnson, Tammie M. ; Bethune, Lisa A. ; Ye, Cong ; Chen, Lu ; Fried, Jacquelyn L. ; Fiedler, Robert
• Description:
  Introduction
  
  Diabetes organizations recommend that people with diabetes should not smoke because of increased risk of diabetes complications. We describe smoking rates and health care service use among adults with diabetes in Florida and Maryland and identify the role of dentists in offering smoking cessation advice and services.
  
  Methods
  
  We analyzed data from 3 state telephone surveys: the 2007 Florida Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (n = 39,549), the 2007 Florida Tobacco Callback Survey (n = 3,560), and the 2006 Maryland Adult Tobacco Survey (n = 21,799).
  
  Results
  
  Findings indicated that 15.7% of adults with diabetes in Florida and 11.6% of adults with diabetes in Maryland currently smoke. Current smoking among people with diabetes was associated with age, education, income, and race/ethnicity. Almost all respondents with diabetes who were current smokers in Florida (92.9%) and Maryland (97.7%) had visited a doctor or health care professional in the past year, and less than half had visited a dentist (40.7% and 44.8%, respectively). Both in Florida and Maryland, approximately two-thirds of adults with diabetes who were smokers and had visited a dentist in the past year had not received advice to quit (63.8% and 63.9%, respectively). In contrast, most adults with diabetes who were smokers and had visited a doctor or health care professional had received advice to quit smoking (95.3% and 84.9%, respectively).
  
  Conclusion
  
  Dentists are in a unique position to identify and demonstrate the oral effects of smoking in patients with diabetes. These data support continued smoking cessation training and education of oral health professionals.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Cross-Sectional Studies Diabetes Mellitus Female Health Personnel Health Services Health Surveys Humans Male Middle Aged Original Research Prevalence Smoking Smoking Cessation Young Adult

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• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 2011; 8(3).
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  21477491
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3103556
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  1 U48 DP001929/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; U25/CCU422790-05/PHS HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Maryland
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  8
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
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