Clinical Recommendations
The following clinical recommendations come from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) .
Counseling and Interventions to Prevent Tobacco Use and Tobacco-Caused Disease in Adults and Pregnant Women
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that clinicians ask all adults about tobacco use and provide tobacco cessation interventions for those who use tobacco products.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that clinicians ask all pregnant women about tobacco use and provide augmented, pregnancy-tailored counseling for those who smoke.
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Community Interventions
The following evidence-based community interventions come from the Guide to Community Preventive Services , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Decreasing Tobacco Use Among Workers: Incentives and Competitions to Increase Smoking Cessation
Worksite-based incentives and competitions to reduce tobacco use among workers offer rewards to individual workers and to teams as a motivation to participate in a cessation program or effort.
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Decreasing Tobacco Use Among Workers: Smoke-Free Policies to Reduce Tobacco Use
Smoke-free policies include private-sector rules and public-sector regulations that prohibit smoking in indoor workplaces and designated public areas.
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Health Communication & Social Marketing: Health Communication Campaigns That Include Mass Media & Health-Related Product Distribution
Health communication campaigns can increase the use of health-related products when they use mass media messaging and distribute the products at free or reduced prices.
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Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Increasing the Unit Price for Tobacco Products
These interventions increase the unit price for tobacco products through municipal, state, or federal legislation that raises the excise tax on these products.
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Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Mass Media Campaigns When Combined with Additional Interventions
Campaigns, as evaluated for this review, are mass media interventions that use brief, recurring messages to inform and motivate tobacco users to quit.
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Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Mass Media Campaigns When Combined with Other Interventions
These mass media campaigns use brief, recurring messages to inform and motivate tobacco uses to quit, and they are often combined with other interventions.
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Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Multicomponent Interventions that Include Telephone Support
These interventions provide people who use tobacco products with cessation counseling or assistance in initiating or maintaining abstinence via telephone. They may be combined with other interventions, such as client education materials, individual or group cessation counseling, or nicotine-replacement therapies.
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Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Provider Reminders When Used Alone
Provider reminder systems for tobacco cessation include efforts to identify clients who use tobacco products and to prompt providers to discuss and/or to advise clients about quitting.
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Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Provider Reminders with Provider Education
These multicomponent efforts to increase tobacco use cessation include implementation of provider reminders and efforts to educate providers to identify and intervene with tobacco-using patients, as well as provide supplementary educational materials.
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Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Reducing Client Out-of-Pocket Costs for Cessation Therapies
These interventions include efforts to reduce the financial barriers that may keep people from using cessation therapies such as nicotine replacement, other pharmacologic therapies, or behavioral therapies such as cessation groups.
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Reducing Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke: Smoking Bans and Restrictions
Smoking bans and restrictions are policies, regulations, and laws that limit smoking in workplaces and other public areas.
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Reducing Tobacco Use Initiation: Increasing the Unit Price of Tobacco Products
This intervention includes an assessment of personal health habits and risk factors; an estimation or assessment of risk of death and other adverse health outcomes; and provision of feedback in the form of educational messages and counseling.
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Restricting Minors’ Access to Tobacco Products: Community Mobilization with Additional Interventions
These are community-wide interventions aimed at focusing public attention on the issue of youth access to tobacco products and mobilizing community support for additional efforts to reduce that access.
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Worksite Health Promotion: Assessment of Health Risks with Feedback to Change Employees’ Health
This intervention includes an assessment of personal health habits and risk factors; an estimation or assessment of risk of death and other adverse health outcomes; and provision of feedback in the form of educational messages and counseling.
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