Physician Intervention and Patient Risk Perception among Smokers with Acute Respiratory Illness in the Emergency Department

Emergency Department-Based Tobacco Interventions Improve Patient Satisfaction

“…Demographic and clinical information were recorded, including age, sex, race, ethnicity, insurance, source of usual medical care, and reason for visit. In addition, patients completed the following instruments: Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Tolerance, the Ladder of Contemplation, ImportanceReadiness-Confidence rulers, the Perceived Risk Assessment, and the Patient Smoking Intervention Opinion Survey (11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16). We did not record data on patients who declined to participate.…”

Factors Associated With Smoking Cessation Counseling at Clinical Encounters: The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2000

“…3,4 Despite proven efficacy, however, clinicians do not capitalize on all opportunities to provide quit advice to smoking patients. Reported rates of smoking cessation counseling range from 17% to 81%, [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] with most studies reporting rates near the lower end of this range.…”

Smokers’ Knowledge About Smoking-Related Health Problems in Lebanon

“…to quit smoking (Attebring et al, 2004;Bernestein et al, 2008;Boudreaux et al, 2010;Kristeller, Rossi, Ockene, Goldberg, & Prochaska, 1992;Lando, Hennrikus, Mc-Carty, & Vessey, 2003). These studies also demonstrated the presence of a correlation between the level of knowledge and perception of smoking effect on physical status and the degree of motivation to quit smoking (Bock et al, 2001;Bock et al, 2008;Hay et al, 2007;West, McEwen, Bolling, & Owen, 2001). Lebanon is a Middle East country where cigarettes are relatively not expensive, smoking is not forbidden in public places and waterpipe smoking is an important mean of nicotine consumption.…”