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Description:This guideline contains strategies and recommendations designed to assist clinicians, smoking cessation specialists, and health care administrators/insurers/purchasers in identifying tobacco users and supporting and delivering effective smoking cessation interventions. These recommenda- tions were made as a result of an exhaustive and systematic review and analysisofthescientificliterature. Theprimaryanalytictechniqueusedwas meta-analysis. The strength of evidence that served as the basis for each recommendation is clearly indicated in the guideline.
All persons, organizations, and agencies with an interest in the smoking cessation guideline were invited to participate at a public meeting held in Bethesda, Maryland, on November 9, 1994.
Suggested citation: Fiore MC, Bailey WC, Cohen SJ, et al. Smoking Cessation. Clinical Practice Guideline No 18. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. AHCPR Publication No. 96-0692. April 1996.
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Content Notes:Executive summary -- Overview -- Recommendations for three target audiences -- Evidence -- Promoting the motivation to quit and preventing relapse -- Special populations and topics.
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ISBN:0-16-048610-6
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Pages in Document:viii, 125 numbered pages
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