Smoking Cessation Clinical
Practice Guideline, 2000
• Effective treatments exist (psychiatric hook)
• Every patient who uses tobacco should be offered treatment
• Strong dose-response relationship, effectiveness increases with
intensity of treatment
• Treatment is insured & clinicians are reimbursed (far from 100%)
• Pharmacotherapy (physical hook)
• Clinically effective and cost effective
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services