Gleckler E, Bates B R, Schilleci E, Hargrove-Roberson D
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
J La State Med Soc. 2001 Jan;153(1):45-54.
The Louisiana Office of Public Health Tobacco Control and Prevention Program received funding from the Louisiana State Legislature to expand smoking cessation activities in the state. The Tobacco Control Program conducted a review of other states' current smoking cessation programs, cessation programs in Louisiana, and epidemiological evidence in planning the expansion of the Louisiana tobacco smoking cessation program. As a result, a smoking cessation helpline has been developed. Medical clinicians in Louisiana have a powerful impact on their patients' smoking cessation success. Simple discussion by physicians with their patients about how to quit smoking has improved successful quitting rates by 40%. Approximately 70% of smokers visit a physician each year and 60% visit a dentist, so there is clearly an opportunity to reach many persons at risk. The telephone smoking cessation helpline at 1-800-LUNG-USA is a tool for clinicians to use when advising their patients on ways to improve their health and prevent disease.
路易斯安那州公共卫生烟草控制与预防项目办公室获得了路易斯安那州立法机构的资金，用于在该州扩大戒烟活动。烟草控制项目在规划路易斯安那州戒烟项目的扩展时，对其他州当前的戒烟项目、路易斯安那州的戒烟项目以及流行病学证据进行了审查。结果，一条戒烟热线应运而生。路易斯安那州的医学临床医生对其患者戒烟的成功有着强大的影响力。医生与患者就如何戒烟进行简单的讨论，已使成功戒烟率提高了40%。每年约70%的吸烟者会去看医生，60%的吸烟者会去看牙医，因此显然有机会接触到许多有风险的人。1-800-LUNG-USA这条电话戒烟热线是临床医生在就改善患者健康和预防疾病的方法向患者提供建议时可以使用的一种工具。
