'Quitlines' May Help Patients Stop Smoking
Posted on: Wednesday, 30 May 2007, 09:00 CDT
Dentists may be able to help their patients stop smoking by referring them to telephone quitlines, according to a U.S. study.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minn., conducted a pilot study and randomly assigned eight general dental practices in Minnesota to provide either brief counseling regarding smoking cessation or brief counseling along with referrals to a tobacco-use quitline for patients who said they were currently smoking cigarettes.
Of 82 patients, 60 were referred to the tobacco-use quitline and 22 received only brief counseling. At six months, 25 percent of the patients in the quitline group and 27 percent of the patients in the brief-counseling group had abstained from tobacco use. Abstinence rates among patients in the quitline group rose if those patients completed more telephone consultations, according to the study published in The Journal of the American Dental Association.
Quitlines services include: self-help materials, a referral list of other programs and one-on-one counseling.
Source: United Press International
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