title: Healthcare providers' treatment of college smokers.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer Scott
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Koontz
authors.forename: Kari Jo
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: Kolawole S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Okuyemi
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Mosier
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grobe
authors.forename: Niaman
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nazir
authors.forename: Jasjit S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Ahluwalia
mesh_terms: 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