Smoking Cessation strategies and dentist’s interventions: Advising patients to quit tobacco use is a dental professional responsibility, and the dentists may take an active role in nicotine replacement counseling (Sham, 2003). Smoking cessation should be incorporated as an integral teaching component of the undergraduate dental curriculum, particularly with respect to the prevention and diagnosis of tobacco-induced oral lesions and complications Sham (2003). Patients who smoke should be counseled to cease smoking for their individual oral and systemic health (Kent L. Knoernschild, 2015). In a study conducted by an author named Fiona M. Collins (2009) among adults 18 years of age and older with the total population of
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They used state survey data on smoking from 1985 to 2003 in a quasi-experimental design to examine the association between cumulative state anti-tobacco program expenditures and changes in adult smoking prevalence, after they controlled for confounding. Their study is a systematic assessment of the association between adult smoking, funding for state tobacco control programs, and state cigarette excise taxes. Their extensive research has shown that state tobacco control programs, combined with other efforts, such as the American Legacy Foundation's national truth campaign, have been effective in reducing adolescent tobacco use. Their results from the regression models demonstrate that increases in state tobacco control program expenditures were independently associated with reductions in adult smoking prevalence (P<.01) regardless of the level of discounting of past tobacco control expenditures. Increases in cigarette prices were also independently associated with decreases in overall adult smoking prevalence, with larger effects in models with a greater discounting of …show more content…
As this impact is huge and it is evident from many studies that tobacco leads to oral cancer and many other oral diseases which are quite deadly. So, dentist’s interventions at their local or family practices and tobacco cessation programs by the state and nationwide were highly essential for the welfare of the individual thriving for better health and this occurs only when the smokers accept it and follow the programs to quit
They used state survey data on smoking from 1985 to 2003 in a quasi-experimental design to examine the association between cumulative state anti-tobacco program expenditures and changes in adult smoking prevalence, after they controlled for confounding. Their study is a systematic assessment of the association between adult smoking, funding for state tobacco control programs, and state cigarette excise taxes. Their extensive research has shown that state tobacco control programs, combined with other efforts, such as the American Legacy Foundation's national truth campaign, have been effective in reducing adolescent tobacco use. Their results from the regression models demonstrate that increases in state tobacco control program expenditures were independently associated with reductions in adult smoking prevalence (P<.01) regardless of the level of discounting of past tobacco control expenditures. Increases in cigarette prices were also independently associated with decreases in overall adult smoking prevalence, with larger effects in models with a greater discounting of …show more content…
As this impact is huge and it is evident from many studies that tobacco leads to oral cancer and many other oral diseases which are quite deadly. So, dentist’s interventions at their local or family practices and tobacco cessation programs by the state and nationwide were highly essential for the welfare of the individual thriving for better health and this occurs only when the smokers accept it and follow the programs to quit