Smoking Cessation

Effective facilitators in primary care settings helped practices to think more critically and motivated them to support change, resulting in significant improvements in preventive CVD care, a recent study found.

Tobacco cessation counseling for hospitalized patients by trained medical students.

Immediate provision of an intensive telephone-based smoking cessation intervention was associated with increased rates of smoking cessation at 3 months, researchers reported at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

In current and former smokers, treatment with icosapent ethyl reduced CV event risk to levels observed in never smokers, according to new data from REDUCE-IT presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

Higher intake of dietary flavonoids may mitigate some risk for COPD in current and former smokers, according to a study published in European Respiratory Journal.

Cigarette smoking-attributable cancer deaths appeared associated with nearly 2.2 million person-years of life lost and $20.9 billion in lost earnings across the United States in 2019, according to study results.

Among U.S. adults, there was an immediate decrease in smoking-cessation activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data published in JAMA Network Open.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Trained medical students may be able to provide effective tobacco cessation counseling to hospitalized patients, thereby improving patient access to counseling services, a speaker reported.

Maintaining optimal CV health by following the American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7 protected people from stroke, even among those at high genetic risk, data from a long-term analysis show.

Primary care clinics that implemented an outreach intervention had a greater proportion of patients who converted from current to former smokers than clinics without the intervention, according to findings published in Preventive Medicine.