Smoking

This page includes some of the evidence identified on the Lifescripts guidelines for assessment and managment for smoking:

Zwar N, Richmond R, Stillman S, Cunninghan M. Litt J. Smoking Cessation guidelines for Australian general practice. Canberra; Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, 2004.

Fiore MC, Bailey WC, Cohen SJ, et al. Treating tobacco use and dependence. US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 2000.

Doll R, Peto R, Boreham J, Sutherland I. Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years observations on male British doctors. BMJ 2004; 328:1519.

White V, Hill D, Siahpush M, Bobevski I. How has the prevalence of cigarette smoking changed among Australian adults? Trends in smoking prevalence between 1980 and 2001. Tobacco Control 2003; 12(Suppl 2): 156-163.

Richmond R, Kehoe L, Heather N, et al. General Practitioners' promotion of healthy life styles: what patients think. Aust NZ J Public Health 1996; 20(2): 195-200.

Hill D, White V, Scollo M, Smoking behaviours of Australian adults in 1995: trends and concerns. Med J Aust 1998; 168: 209-213

National Tobacco Campaign. Quit because you can. Canberra, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, 2002.

Collins D, Lapsley H. Counting the cost: estimates of the social costs of drug abuse in Australia in 1998-9. In National Drug Strategy Monograph number 49, Canberra: National Drug Strategy, 2002.

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