title: Ask and act: Delaware physicians demonstrate the effectiveness of the American Academy of Family Physicians' initiative to promote tobacco cessation counseling.
abstract: The Ask and Act program of the American Academy of Family Physicians promotes family physician tobacco cessation counseling. Smoking and cessation counseling rates were obtained by cross-sectional analysis of electronic medical record data before and after initiation of the Ask and Act program in Delaware. Before the intervention, 24% of the patient population sampled were smokers and 70% of smokers had been counseled to quit smoking. After the intervention, 17% of the patient population sampled were smokers and 98% of smokers had been counseled. Our observations suggest that the Ask and Act program increases counseling, thereby increasing smoking cessation.
authors: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Christiana Care Health Service, Newark, Delaware, USA.
authors: Sarah
authors: S
authors: Mullins
authors: Heather Bittner
authors: HB
authors: Fagan
authors: James F
authors: JF
authors: Reed
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Bercaw
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003691:Delaware; D005194:Family Practice / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000592:standards*; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D012955:Societies, Medical