Annals of internal medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Training physicians in counseling about smoking cessation. A randomized trial of the "Quit for Life" program.
To test whether physicians who receive a continuing education program ("Quit for Life") about how to counsel smokers to quit would counsel smokers more effectively and have higher rates of long-term smoking cessation among their patients who smoke. ⋯ This continuing education program substantially changed the way physicians counseled smokers. As a result, a few more patients who wanted to quit smoking achieved long-term abstinence.