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Clinic-based Intervention Program Improves Smoking Cessation Rates, Study Says
Contact: Sarah L. Zielinski
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute
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Training intake clinicians at primary care facilities to use specific, guideline-based methods to encourage their patients who smoke to quit increases the likelihood that their patients will successfully quit smoking, according to a study published in the April 21 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Intake clinicians are nurses and medical assistants who document the reasons for an office visit and check patients