Smoking Cessation Approaches & Options

 
 
 

At the contemplation stage, smokers are beginning to think they might want to quit and are open to feedback and information.

Suggest that they pay attention to everything they hear about smoking, begin to list their reasons for quitting and their barriers, give them health information.

Smoking Cessation: Clinical Practice Guideline Number 18. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, April 1996.