Aims: The constantly high number of smokers, as well as the small number of both providers and demand for nicotine cessation programmes in Germany, call for greater optimization of nicotine cessation intervention treatments.
Design: SNICAS (“Smoking and Nicotine Dependence Awareness and Screening”) is based on a two-stage epidemiological point prevalence study with a nation-wide sample of 889 primary care doctors and 28,707 unselected consecutive patients. The study provides information about prescription and implementation of several different nicotine cessation treatments.
Conclusion: Cognitive behavioural therapy and counselling are more often implemented or seen as suggested by doctors than the use of pharmacotherapy in the form of bupropion and nicotine replacements. Several earlier quitting attempts, a high number of daily smoked cigarettes, nicotine dependence, a reduced state of health, and the patients` motivation to quit as well as their open-mindedness towards nicotine cessation treatment, are the main drivers of prescription and implementation of any kind of smoking cessation intervention. Trainings in smoking cessation treatments for doctors raise the likelihood of prescription and implementation of nicotine cessation interventions. No specific patient or doctor characteristics are associated with only one specific intervention of nicotine cessation. The number of pharmacotherapies among adolescent and young adults was significantly low.
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Aims: The constantly high number of smokers, as well as the small number of both providers and demand for nicotine cessation programmes in Germany, call for greater optimization of nicotine cessation intervention treatments.
Design: SNICAS (“Smoking and Nicotine Dependence Awareness and Screening”) is based on a two-stage epidemiological point prevalence study with a nation-wide sample of 889 primary care doctors and 28,707 unselected consecutive patients. The study provides information about p...
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