AMNews: May 23/30, 2005. Better efforts sought for quitting smoking ...

AMNews: May 23/30, 2005. Better efforts sought for quitting smoking ... American Medical News:
"Better efforts sought for quitting smoking Reminders, assessment and feedback for doctors have helped get smokers to quit; experts say this work is ready to move to the next level.

By Victoria Stagg Elliott, AMNews staff. May 23/30, 2005.

A multipronged system-based approach to smoking cessation increases quit rates among patients, but such efforts must become more integrated into other disease management systems to avoid overloading doctors, according to a panel discussion earlier this month at the Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care meeting in Chicago.

For example, advocates lobbied against one more disease management program for smoking, particularly because many patients are in more that one such program already."