Healthcare providers' treatment of college smokers.
About 28% of college students smoke tobacco, and many will continue smoking into adulthood. Although little is known about how to help college students quit smoking, 1 promising strategy is healthcare providers' advice. To estimate their life-time receipt of brief advice and to identify characteristics that predict who may receive that advice, 348 college students completed a survey about their smoking and related practices. Seventy-seven percent of the smokers (73% of the students) were asked about smoking. Of those smokers, 57% were advised to quit, 22% were given advice about quitting, 5% were helped with setting a quit date, and 4% were offered follow-up. Occasional smokers were less likely than daily smokers to be advised to quit. Although 36.2% of the smokers did not report their smoking accurately, smokers who were accurate were more likely to be advised to quit and to be given advice about quitting.
Koontz
Jennifer Scott
JS
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA.
Harris
Kari Jo
KJ
Okuyemi
Kolawole S
KS
Mosier
Michael C
MC
Grobe
James
J
Nazir
Niaman
N
Ahluwalia
Jasjit S
JS
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003376:Counseling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015146:Midwestern United States; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013333:Student Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014495:Universities