title: Physician-directed smoking cessation in a health promotion setting.
abstract: Cigarette smokers contemplating quitting set proximal quit dates followed by telephone calls from a physician. Over six years of follow-up, 85 (31%) of 271 smokers were found off cigarettes at least six weeks. Twenty-eight (10.3%) long-term quitters (LTQs) averaged 27 months off. Comparison of LTQs with 49 randomly-selected non-quitters (NQs) showed no significant differences in demographics, anthropo-metrics, fitness, pulmonary function, or voluntary adjunct use. LTQs often stopped on the encounter date; NQs were more stressed.
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Richards
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D011320:Primary Health Care; D017010:Reminder Systems; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012907:Smoking / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013689:Telephone; D014481:United States