Brewster Joan M, Victor J Charles, Ashley Mary Jane
Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
Can J Public Health. 2007 Sep-Oct;98(5):395-9. doi: 10.1007/BF03405426.
Health professionals have important roles in helping smokers quit. However, it is not known how the public, especially smokers, view smoking cessation advice from different health professionals.
We added questions regarding opinions and experiences with health professionals' smoking cessation advice to the 2002 CAMH Monitor, an annual random-digit-dialled survey of adult Ontarians. We report on how good a source of advice physicians, pharmacists, and dentists are perceived to be, how likely smokers are to consult each of these professionals, who smokers would ask for advice on the use of NRT, and advice received by smokers in the past year.
About two thirds of respondents viewed physicians as a very good source of advice on quitting, compared to just over one third and about one quarter who thought this of pharmacists and dentists, respectively. Over half of current smokers would be very likely to ask a physician for quit advice, compared to about 20% and only 3% for a pharmacist or a dentist, respectively. Among smokers, over 40% would first ask a physician for advice on NRT; about 20% would first ask a pharmacist. About 42% and 8% of current smokers reported that they received advice in the past year from a physician and pharmacist, respectively.
Smokers are receptive to quit advice from physicians, but less likely to ask other health professionals. Few smokers received advice from pharmacists and dentists. Increasing the reach of quit advice requires both increased professional intervention and education of the public.
健康专业人员在帮助吸烟者戒烟方面发挥着重要作用。然而，公众，尤其是吸烟者，如何看待来自不同健康专业人员的戒烟建议尚不清楚。
我们在《2002年成瘾与心理健康监测》中增加了关于对健康专业人员戒烟建议的看法和经历的问题，这是一项对安大略省成年人进行的年度随机数字拨号调查。我们报告了医生、药剂师和牙医被认为是多好的建议来源，吸烟者咨询这些专业人员中每一位的可能性，吸烟者会向谁寻求关于使用尼古丁替代疗法（NRT）的建议，以及吸烟者在过去一年中收到的建议。
约三分之二的受访者认为医生是戒烟建议的很好来源，相比之下，分别只有略多于三分之一和约四分之一的人认为药剂师和牙医是很好的建议来源。超过一半的当前吸烟者很可能会向医生寻求戒烟建议，相比之下，向药剂师或牙医寻求建议的比例分别约为20%和仅3%。在吸烟者中，超过40%的人会首先向医生寻求关于NRT的建议；约20%的人会首先向药剂师寻求建议。约42%和8%的当前吸烟者报告称，他们在过去一年中分别从医生和药剂师那里得到了建议。
吸烟者接受医生的戒烟建议，但向其他健康专业人员咨询的可能性较小。很少有吸烟者从药剂师和牙医那里得到建议。扩大戒烟建议的覆盖面既需要增加专业干预，也需要对公众进行教育。
