Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco: Action Steps for Clinicians

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• Alternative Title:
  Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco: Action Steps for Clinicians: A Million Hearts Action Guide
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Smoking is one of the leading causes of heart disease and stroke, accounting for 32% of coronary heart disease deaths. Although the proportion of U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes has steadily decreased over the past 50 years, to approximately 17% in 2014, large disparities in smoking rates remain across racial/ethnic groups, socioeconomic statuses, and geographic areas and among people with mental health and substance use disorders.
  
  About 36.5 million U.S. adults continue to smoke cigarettes, resulting in about 480,000 smoking-related deaths each year in the United States. At least 70% of cigarette smokers see a clinician annually, and most want to quit. However, fewer than 25% of tobacco users leave a health care visit with evidence-based counseling and medication.
  
  The purpose of this document is to provide evidence-based, tested tobacco use identification and intervention strategies for busy clinicians. These strategies were gathered from the published scientific literature, including the U.S. Public Health Service–sponsored Clinical Practice Guideline Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Chronic Disease Health Promotion Heart Diseases Smoking Cessation Stroke Tobacco Use Cessation
• Keywords:
  2025 CDC Chronic Disease Prevention Resource Guide Evidence-based Intervention Models, Frameworks, And Best Practice Guidelines Heart Disease And Stroke (Chronic Health Topic)
• Series:
  Million Hearts
• DOI:
  https://www.doi.org/10.15620/cdc/80652
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  13 pdf pages
• Citation:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Identifying and Treating Patients Who Use Tobacco: Action Steps for Clinicians. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Dept of Health and Human Services; 2016.
• Collection(s):
  Chronic Diseases and Conditions
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/80652/cdc_80652_DS1.pdf
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