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Associations between Tobacco Use and Tobacco Cessation Pharmacotherapy on Rehospitalizations

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the associations of smoking status and prescription of smoking cessation medication on rehospitalizations. Tobacco use remains a major public health issue in the United States as it is linked to a broad spectrum of serious diseases. Although intensive inpatient tobacco treatment programs have shown…

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Enhancing Tobacco Treatment for Medicaid Recipients

Objective: Medicaid recipients are vulnerable to increased morbidity and mortality secondary to high tobacco use prevalence and barriers to accessing tobacco treatment. The purpose of the pilot study was to explore managed care administrators’ perceptions of the facilitators and barriers to tobacco treatment for Medicaid recipients. Methods: Focus groups with…

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Tobacco Use Patterns in a Southern US HIV Clinic

Objectives: Smoking rates are two to three times higher among people living with HIV and AIDS compared with the general population, but the prevalence of tobacco use among this population in the Charleston, SC region has not been established. To understand cigarette use, previous quit attempts, historic use of cessation…

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Using Motivational Interviewing for Smoking Cessation in Primary Care

Objectives: To compare the effects of resident physician motivational interviewing (MI), resident physician MI plus registered nurse (RN), and the standard of care counseling approach— ask, advise, assess, assist, and arrange follow-up (5 As)—on current smokers’ behaviors (readiness to quit, cigarettes smoked per day, current smoking rates), self-efficacy to quit…

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Are Obstetricians Following Best-Practice Guidelines for Addressing Pregnancy Smoking? Results from Northeast Tennessee

Background:In 2000, the American College of Obstetricians/Gynecologists (ACOG) established the 5 A’s method of brief smoking cessation counseling (ask, advise, assess, assist, arrange) as a standard component of prenatal care. The purpose of this study was to describe use of the 5 A’s in prenatal care in Northeast Tennessee, where…

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