Some of the tools available to health professionals to help them in their efforts to help their patients to quit smoking include:
- Use AHCPR's Clinical Practice Guidelines on Smoking Cessation
- Use the National Cancer Institute’s “4 A’s” in counseling patients:
- Assess
- Advise
- Assist
- Arrange Follow-up
- Tailor the “Stages of Change” model in counseling patients to quit smoking
Smoking Cessation: Clinical Practice Guideline Number 18. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, April 1996. |
