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The resources below present the most recent evidence and clinical guidelines for treating tobacco use and dependence. You will also find usable tools to guide your practice and help you integrate tobacco treatment into routine clinical care.
The ATS recommends varenicline (Chantix) as the most effective medication for smoking cessation. Compared with nicotine patches, varenicline is more effective and better tolerated.
Medications, including nicotine replacement, varenicline, and bupropion, have demonstrated efficacy as smoking cessation aids . These and other pharmacologic options to help patients stop smoking are discussed here.
This guide provides simple steps and suggested language that you can use to briefly (3 to 5 minutes) intervene with patients who use tobacco. These steps can be integrated into the routine clinical workflow and can be delivered by the entire clinical care team.
The USPSTF recommends that clinicians ask all adults about tobacco use, advise them to stop using tobacco, and provide behavioral interventions and U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
All five of the FDA-approved pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation are recommended including bupropion SR, nicotine gum, nicotine inhaler, nicotine nasal spray, and the nicotine patch. What factors should a clinician consider when choosing among the five first-line pharmacotherapies?
On January 19, 2021, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released an updated recommendation regarding tobacco cessation treatment, affirming that tobacco cessation treatment is an ‘A’-rated preventive service.
This guideline provides technical guidance on a thorough set of tobacco cessation interventions for adults, and to support WHO Member States to use evidence-based behavioural interventions and pharmacological treatments for tobacco cessation as part of a comprehensive tobacco control approach.
You can quit smoking: here's how. Quitting smoking is one of the most important steps you can take to improve your health. This is true no matter how old you are or how long you have smoked. The good news is there are proven treatments that can help you quit.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a comprehensive set of tobacco cessation interventions, including behavioural support delivered by health-care providers, digital cessation interventions and pharmacological treatments in a first guideline on tobacco cessation.