Public Health Strategic Health Care Group
Smoking Cessation
Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of premature death and a leading cause of illness and mortality. Veterans are disproportionately affected by smoking-related illnesses as the rate of smoking among veterans seen in the VA health care system is higher than that of the U.S. population. Many of our patients began using tobacco while in the military. Therefore, smoking and tobacco use cessation remains one of the biggest public health challenges in VA today. |
Smoking Cessation Main Topics & Sections
Information on clinical care
topics, including dosing and duration of nicotine
replacement therapy and best practices in tobacco
control within the VA.
Information on patient-level interventions and
provider and clinic-level interventions - including
levels of treatment, programs to support treatment,
telephone counseling, and hospital based tobacco use
cessation programs.
Smoking Cessation materials including guides, brochures, reports, VA directives,
VA policy, information letters, conference proceedings, and clinical practice guidelines
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Reviewed/Updated Date:
August 26, 2008 |
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