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Quit‐smoking counseling works, but barriers exist in cancer care
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32874
Subject(s) - smoking cessation , medicine , abstinence , lung cancer , cancer , family medicine , tobacco use , cigarette smoking , intensive care medicine , oncology , psychiatry , environmental health , pathology , population
The best predictor of tobacco‐related cancer survival is abstinence from tobacco, an editorial, “Intensive Smoking Cessation Counseling for Patients with Cancer,” reports in the Oct. 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association . The National Comprehensive Cancer Network recommends cessation counseling and pharmacologic treatment for patients with cancer who are interested in quitting smoking, but only 44% of physicians who treat lung cancer treat their patients' tobacco dependence. Barriers to cessation treatment in oncology include time constraints and lack of tobacco‐cessation training.