Ask and act: Delaware physicians demonstrate the effectiveness of the American Academy of Family Physicians' initiative to promote tobacco cessation counseling.

Publication/Presentation Date

4-1-2009

Abstract

The Ask and Act program of the American Academy of Family Physicians promotes family physician tobacco cessation counseling. Smoking and cessation counseling rates were obtained by cross-sectional analysis of electronic medical record data before and after initiation of the Ask and Act program in Delaware. Before the intervention, 24% of the patient population sampled were smokers and 70% of smokers had been counseled to quit smoking. After the intervention, 17% of the patient population sampled were smokers and 98% of smokers had been counseled. Our observations suggest that the Ask and Act program increases counseling, thereby increasing smoking cessation.

Volume

81

Issue

4

First Page

155

Last Page

160

ISSN

0011-7781

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

19552219

Department(s)

Department of Medicine

Document Type

Article

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