Differences in Treating Tobacco Use Across National, State, and Public Hospital System Surveys

Prev Chronic Dis. 2018 Aug 16:15:E103. doi: 10.5888/pcd15.170575.

Abstract

The Louisiana Tobacco Control Initiative (TCI), a multidisciplinary program specializing in helping tobacco users quit, assisted health care providers in Louisiana's public hospitals with integrating evidence-based treatment of tobacco use into clinical practice. Our study compared smoking behavior, provider adherence to the 5 A's tobacco cessation intervention (ask, advise, assess, assist, and arrange), cessation assistance awareness, quit attempts, and treatment preference among respondents to a TCI survey with a sample of respondents from the National Adult Tobacco Survey (NATS) and a sample from the Louisiana Adult Tobacco Survey (LATS). In 2010, more TCI respondents were asked if they smoked, advised to quit, helped to set a quit date, counseled, and arranged to be contacted for follow-up than respondents to NATS or LATS. Fewer TCI respondents received self-help material or were prescribed medication to assist in quitting than NATS and LATS respondents. In 2010 and 2013, TCI participants reported more quit attempts when 4 or more of the 5 A's were received. Thus, public health systems can promote treatment of tobacco use.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Louisiana / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians'
  • Smoking / epidemiology*
  • Smoking Cessation*
  • Tobacco Use Disorder / therapy*
  • United States / epidemiology
  • Young Adult