Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Provider Reminders with Provider Education

Task Force Finding*

Multicomponent efforts to increase tobacco use cessation include implementation of provider reminders and efforts to educate providers to identify and to intervene with tobacco-using patients, as well as to provide supplementary educational materials when indicated.

Multicomponent interventions that include a provider reminder system and a provider education program, with or without educational materials for tobacco-using patients, are strongly recommended on the basis of strong evidence that this combination (1) increases provider delivery of advice to quit to tobacco-using patients, and (2) increases patient tobacco use cessation. The Task Force recommendation reflects the evidence of effectiveness of the most common combination evaluated, as the contribution of the individual components to overall effectiveness of these interventions could not be determined.

*From the following publication:

Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Recommendations regarding interventions to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. [PDF - 1.46KB] Am J Prev Med 2001;20(2S):10-5.

Review completed: February 2000