- ACP Observer Nov 96
American College of Physicians (ACP) message to its chapters: help end smoking where you live.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - 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.
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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.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - 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.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - 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.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Stopping Smoking
Review of scientific literature on smoking costs, quitting methods.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - 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.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Why Be Involved / Barriers
Why oral health care professionals should be involved in tobacco cessation; major barriers to becoming involved.
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