What are the most effective ways you can help patients stop smoking?
Abstract
Brief counseling, nicotine replacement therapy, antidepressants, and varenicline
all work well. Physician intervention should begin with routine assessment of smoking status for all patients. Brief (3 minutes or less) smoking cessation counseling improves quit rates (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, Cochrane systematic review). Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), antidepressants (bupropion and nortriptyline), and the nicotine receptor
partial agonist varenicline are effective
and should be offered to help smokers
quit (SOR: A, Cochrane systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials [RCTs]).
Rights
OpenAccess.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.