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Smoking Cessation Approaches & Options

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Table of Contents

• Smoking Cessation Approaches & Options
• Nicotine takes seconds to reach brain
• The cycle of addiction
• The process of nicotine addiction
• The delivery of nicotine's effect
• Clinical aspects of nicotine addiction
• Why smokers don't quit - myths
• Why women continue to smoke
• Stress and relapse
• Stages of change model
• Precontemplation
• Contemplation
• Preparation
• Action
• Maintenance
• Relapse
• A Look at the numbers
• Nicotine-use disorder
• Nicotine withdrawal
• For health professionals:
• AHCPR's major findings and recommendations, #1 *
• AHCPR's major findings and recommendations, #2 *
• AHCPR's major findings and recommendations, #3 *
• AHCPR's major findings and recommendations, #4 *
• AHCPR's major findings and recommendations, #5 *
• AHCPR's major findings and recommendations, #6 *
• NCI's 4 A's
• Adolescents and smoking cessation
• Tips for helping adolescents quit smoking - ASK
• Tips for helping adolescents quit smoking - ADVISE
• Tips for helping adolescents quit smoking - ASSIST
• Tips for helping adolescents quit smoking - ARRANGE FOLLOW-UP
• Ask, assess, and document tobacco-use status
• Advise all smokers to quit
• Assist patient with a quit plan
• Arrange for follow-up contact
• Strategy for quitting
• Smoking cessation and weight gain (w/cartoon)
• Smoking cessation and social support
• Smoking cessation an the menstrual cycle
• Smoking cessation and menopause
• Smoking cessation and depression
• FDA-approved smoking cessation products (as of 9/97)
• Smoking cessation methods: nicotine patch
• Smoking cessation methods: nicotine gum
• Smoking cessation methods: nicotine nasal spray
• Smoking cessation methods: nicotine inhaler
• Smoking cessation methods: combination therapies
• Smoking cessation methods: non-nicotine therapies
• Other non-nicotine therapies under investigation
• Smoking cessation methods: acupuncture
• Smoking cessation methods: hypnosis
• Smoking cessation methods: group support
• Cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation programs
• Gradual cessation techniques
• A new way of viewing progress in smoking cessation

* At the time of creating this Kit, the new guidelines from the Public Health Service (PHS), entitled Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: A Clinical Practice Guideline, had not yet been published. That document updates the Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guideline released in 1996 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). The information in this Kit refers to the 1996 guidelines released by AHCPR.