Description:
JADA January 2022
Background.
Smoking
remains a major contributor to mortality and morbidity. Dental care
professionals are positioned to help patients quit smoking. Results of clinical
trials have shown the efficacy of dental care professionals’ smoking-cessation
advice; however, the evidence of its effectiveness in the general population in
the United States is limited. The authors examined the association between
smoking-cessation advice from dental care professionals and quitting behaviors
of adult smokers in
the general
population.
Keywords.
Smoking
cessation; dental; NHANES; patient
education.
