How-to-do-it quit-smoking strategies for the dental office team: an eight-step program.
Dental personnel have an ethical responsibility to inform their patients about the hazards of tobacco use. Because oral health team members generally see their patients on a frequent and recurring basis, these treatment providers have unparalleled opportunities to educate and help those who smoke to adopt a smokefree lifestyle. Dental practitioners can readily incorporate smoking cessation efforts into their routine dental practices by using an eight-phase smoking intervention program. The overall focus of this program is to: "Ask" patients about smoking or smokeless tobacco usage; "Advise" tobacco-using patients to quit; "Assist" interested patients in quitting; and "Arrange" for supportive follow-up. By providing these services, dental professionals can do their part to help create a smokefree America by the year 2000.
Christen
A G
AG
Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis.
Klein
J A
JA
Christen
J A
JA
McDonald
J L
JL
Guba
C J
CJ
D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D006801:Humans; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*