title: Promoting smoking cessation in adults.
abstract: There is a wealth of opportunities for nurses to facilitate smoking cessation with their patients. Nurses have shown to have a modest but positive effect on cessation rates when they deliver brief or intensive counseling. Because nurses work in a multitude of clinical settings, they can impact both prevention and treatment of nicotine addiction associated with cigarette use. More nurses need to be educated about their role in reducing the morbidity and mortality of tobacco-related diseases.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160-7502, USA. mscheibm@kumc.edu
authors.forename: Monica S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Scheibmeir
authors.forename: Kathleen A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: O'Connell
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000451:nursing / Q000503:physiopathology; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology