Smoking cessation programs in occupational settings

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• Alternative Title:
  Public Health Rep
• Personal Author:
  Danaher, Brian G.
• Description:
  For reasons of health and economics, the business community is displaying a growing interest in providing smoking cessation programs for employees. An examination of the current research on smoking cessation methods has revealed a number of promising directions that smoking cessation programs can take, for example, aversive smoking approaches combined with self-control strategies. A review of current smoking cessation programs in occupational settings revealed some emphasis on physician counseling, but a relatively greater emphasis on use of consultants (especially in proprietary programs) or of contingency programs to encourage nonsmoking.The smoking cessation programs in businesses can move in a number of innovative directions, including (a) increased use of inhouse programs with a variety of smoking cessation strategies; (b) greater emphasis on the training of program participants in nonsmoking behavioral skills, combined with contingency or incentive programs for smoking control; (c) vastly improved research methods, including complete followup assessments of program participants and chemical tests to validate their self-reported abstinence; (d) greater concern about the need for empirically tested procedures for recruitment of participants for the programs; and (e) expanded interchange among behavioral scientists (especially behavioral psychologists), health professionals in occupational health and medicine, union and employee groups, and management.
• Subjects:
  Articles Behavior Therapy Counseling Humans Motivation Occupational Health Services Research Smoking Prevention
• Source:
  Public Health Rep. 95(2):149-157
• Pubmed ID:
  7360872
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMCnull
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  95
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Reports
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8a8b3317187c73d030c5760e16701c31c5b6f8fed4e68609e3c556d94559e8a4
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/65639/cdc_65639_DS1.pdf
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