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6/21/2010

Researchers at the University of California, Davis found that health professionals do not offer programs, plans, or prescriptions to help their patients quit smoking for a variety of reasons. Primary care and emergency physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, dentists, dental hygienists, and pharmacists told researchers that their reasons for failure to follow national guidelines for helping patients stop smoking include their own tobacco use, perceptions of patient attitudes about quitting, a lack of training in smoking-cessation interventions, and a feeling that it was not part of their professional responsibilities.