Annals of internal medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Efficacy of resident training in smoking cessation: a randomized, controlled trial of a program based on application of behavioral theory and practice with standardized patients.
New educational programs must be developed to improve physicians' skills and effectiveness in counseling patients about smoking cessation. ⋯ A training program in smoking cessation administered to physicians that was based on behavioral theory and practice with standardized patients significantly increased the quality of physicians' counseling, smokers' motivation to quit, and rates of abstinence from smoking at 1 year.