SMOKING CESSATION: WHAT WORKS IN PRIMARY CARE SETTINGS

This paper presents evidence-based strat-egies for assisting patients in quitting smoking. Summaries of the effectiveness of advice alone, varying levels of behavioral counseling, nicotine replacement therapies, and bupropi-on either alone or in combinations are pre-sented. We describe two web-based resources, one that offers guidance to practitioners and another that is intended as a training tool for students or healthcare professionals on ways to intervene with patients who smoke. The train-ing curriculum contains both didactic material based on the US Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline and tutorials with simulated patients depicting various types of real-life sce-narios. The curriculum can meet the need for training among both students and practitioners in medicine, nursing, health education, den-tistry, and other healthcare professions. (Eth