title: Quick reference guide for clinicians. Smoking cessation: information for specialists. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
abstract: This Quick Reference Guide for Smoking Cessation Specialists contains strategies and recommendations from Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guideline No. 18, designed to assist clinicians, smoking cessation specialists, and health care administrators/insurers/purchasers in identifying tobacco users and supporting and delivering effective smoking cessation interventions. These recommendations were made as a result of an exhaustive and systematic review and analysis of the scientific literature. The primary analytic technique used was meta-analysis.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality