title: Lost opportunities for smoking cessation among adults with diabetes in Florida (2007) and Maryland (2006).
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Diabetes organizations recommend that people with diabetes should not smoke because of increased risk of diabetes complications. We describe smoking rates and health care service use among adults with diabetes in Florida and Maryland and identify the role of dentists in offering smoking cessation advice and services.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed data from 3 state telephone surveys: the 2007 Florida Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (n = 39,549), the 2007 Florida Tobacco Callback Survey (n = 3,560), and the 2006 Maryland Adult Tobacco Survey (n = 21,799).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings indicated that 15.7% of adults with diabetes in Florida and 11.6% of adults with diabetes in Maryland currently smoke. Current smoking among people with diabetes was associated with age, education, income, and race/ethnicity. Almost all respondents with diabetes who were current smokers in Florida (92.9%) and Maryland (97.7%) had visited a doctor or health care professional in the past year, and less than half had visited a dentist (40.7% and 44.8%, respectively). Both in Florida and Maryland, approximately two-thirds of adults with diabetes who were smokers and had visited a dentist in the past year had not received advice to quit (63.8% and 63.9%, respectively). In contrast, most adults with diabetes who were smokers and had visited a doctor or health care professional had received advice to quit smoking (95.3% and 84.9%, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Dentists are in a unique position to identify and demonstrate the oral effects of smoking in patients with diabetes. These data support continued smoking cessation training and education of oral health professionals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland College Park School of Public Health, 2234G SPH Bldg, College Park, MD 20742, USA. opokras@umd.edu
authors.forename: Olivia D
authors.initials: OD
authors.lastname: Carter-Pokras
authors.forename: Tammie M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Lisa A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Bethune
authors.forename: Cong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Jacquelyn L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Fried
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fiedler
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida / Q000453:epidemiology; D006282:Health Personnel; D006296:Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008396:Maryland / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D055815:Young Adult