Percentage of GPs and nurses reporting carrying out various smoking cessation interventions
| GPs (%) | Nurses (%) | |
| Percentage of GPs and nurses reporting advising patients to stop | ||
| Do you advise smokers to stop during most or all consultations? | 50 | 71 |
| Do you advise smokers to stop during consultations every now and then? | 52 | 32 |
| Do you advise smokers to cut down if they are unwilling or unable to stop? | 76 | 85 |
| Advise smokers to stop at least every now and then (derived) | 98 | 95 |
| Percentages of GPs and nurses reporting providing assistance or referral | ||
| In the past month have you . . .. | ||
| Assistance | ||
| given out leaflets on how to stop smoking? | 57 | 93 |
| lent out videos on how to stop smoking? | 4 | 17 |
| lent out audiocassettes on how to stop smoking? | 4 | n/a |
| hired someone to provide counselling to smokers wanting to stop? | 4 | n/a |
| provided counselling yourself to smokers wanting to stop? | 41 | 69 |
| run a stop smoking group? | 6 | 5 |
| Referral | ||
| referred patients to the practice nurse for help with stopping | 41 | n/a |
| referred patients to a hypnotherapist? | 14 | 11 |
| referred patients to an acupuncturist? | 9 | 11 |
| referred patients to another alternative therapist? | 6 | 10 |
| referred patients to any form of alternative therapy (derived) | 20 | 24 |
| recommended that patients go to a private smokers clinic? | 2 | 4 |
| referred patients to a NHS/research smokers clinic? | 6 | 12 |
| advised patients to phone Quitline? | 23 | 63 |
| Percentage of GPs prescribing and recommending, and nurses recommending, NRTs | ||
| In the past month have you . . . | ||
| prescribed nicotine gum? | 12 | n/a |
| prescribed nicotine patch? | 25 | n/a |
| prescribed nicotine nasal spray? | 7 | n/a |
| prescribed nicotine inhalator? | 9 | n/a |
| prescribed some form of NRT | 32 | n/a |
| recommended that patients go and buy nicotine gum? | 51 | 50 |
| recommended that patients go and buy the nicotine patch? | 71 | 69 |
| recommended that patients go and buy the nicotine inhalator? | 33 | 29 |
| recommended some form of NRT (derived) | 78 | 74 |
| recommended or prescribed some form of NRT (derived) | 83 | n/a |
NHS, National Health Service; NRT nicotine replacement therapy; n/a, not applicable.