Smoking Cessation
Asking the Right Questions: Clinicians and Tobacco Cessation in the Clinical Encounter
American Academy of Pediatrics
Approved: November 2012
Grant Period: December 2012 – February 2015
Proposal
Asking the Right Questions: Clinicians and Tobacco Cessation in the Clinical Encounter
The goal of this project is to improve child health by eliminating children’s exposure to tobacco and secondhand smoke. It aims to improve counseling by pediatricians and child health care clinicians about secondhand smoke exposure and tobacco use. Improve prenatal/family-based cessation interventions, and implement adoption of clinical practice system changes.