Search research articles

ABOUT JoVE

Overview Leadership Blog JoVE Help Center

AUTHORS

Publishing Process Editorial Board Scope & Policies Peer Review FAQ Submit

LIBRARIANS

Testimonials Subscriptions Access Resources Library Advisory Board FAQ

RESEARCH

JoVE Journal Methods Collections JoVE Encyclopedia of Experiments Archive

EDUCATION

JoVE Core JoVE Business JoVE Science Education JoVE Lab Manual Faculty Resource Center Faculty Site

Terms & Conditions of Use

Related Concept Videos

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease-V: Management

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease-V: Management

Managing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) involves a multifaceted approach to reduce symptoms, prevent exacerbations, improve overall health status, and slow disease progression. Key strategies include lifestyle modifications, pharmacotherapy, supportive therapies, and, in some cases, surgery. Here is an overview of the primary COPD management strategies:
Smoking Cessation

Atherosclerosis III: Management

Atherosclerosis III: Management

Management of atherosclerosis involves an integrated strategy encompassing pharmacological treatment, surgical interventions, lifestyle changes, and nutrition therapy to address the multifactorial nature of the disease.Pharmacological TherapyA cornerstone of atherosclerosis management is the use of pharmacological agents. Statins, such as atorvastatin, are pivotal in inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase, an enzyme that catalyzes an initial step in cholesterol synthesis in the liver. This reduction in...

Acute Coronary Syndrome IV: Interprofessional Care

Acute Coronary Syndrome IV: Interprofessional Care

IntroductionThe management of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) aims to minimize myocardial damage, preserve myocardial function, and prevent complications.Initial ManagementInpatient management involves continuous cardiac monitoring, preferably in an ICU, focusing on blood pressure, serum sodium, potassium, and creatinine levels, and urine output. Ongoing pharmacologic management is crucial for stabilizing the patient.Supplemental Oxygen: Administer supplemental oxygen if oxygen saturation is...

COPD: Management Using Bronchodilators and Corticosteroids

COPD: Management Using Bronchodilators and Corticosteroids

Chronic obstructive pulmonary isease (COPD) involves a group of progressive lung disorders characterized by persistent airflow limitation and chronic respiratory symptoms. Asthma-COPD Overlap Syndrome (ACOS), encompassing features of both asthma and Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), is a group of progressive lung disorders that includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and refractory (non-reversible) asthma. ACOS leads to complex clinical presentations that combine the inflammatory...

Peripheral Artery Disease III: Interprofessional Care

Peripheral Artery Disease III: Interprofessional Care

Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) is characterized by narrowed arteries that diminish blood flow to the extremities. Effective management of PAD requires an interprofessional approach involving various healthcare professionals. The critical aspects of interprofessional care for PAD patients focus on risk factor modification, drug therapy, exercise therapy, nutrition therapy, critical limb ischemia care, and interventional radiology and surgical procedures.The primary treatment goal for PAD...

Lifestyle Factors and Health

Lifestyle Factors and Health

Lifestyle factors play a critical role in maintaining overall health and preventing chronic diseases. Key elements, such as regular physical activity, a nutritious diet, and abstinence from smoking, can significantly enhance physical, mental, and emotional well-being while reducing the risk of several life-threatening conditions.
Benefits of Physical Activity
Physical activity, whether through structured exercise or casual activities like walking, biking, or dancing, is a cornerstone of a...

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by

Same author

Anisotropic Skyrmion and Multi-q Spin Dynamics in Centrosymmetric Gd_{2}PdSi_{3}.

Physical review letters·2025

Same author

Editorial: Glioma: from genetic to cellular heterogeneity.

Frontiers in cell and developmental biology·2024

Same author

Field-Tunable Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Correlations in a Heisenberg Magnet.

Physical review letters·2023

Same author

Intrinsic Nature of Spontaneous Magnetic Fields in Superconductors with Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking.

Physical review letters·2021

Same author

Origin of Magnetic Ordering in a Structurally Perfect Quantum Kagome Antiferromagnet.

Physical review letters·2020

Same author

Expression profiling of single cells and patient cohorts identifies multiple immunosuppressive pathways and an altered NK cell phenotype in glioblastoma.

Clinical and experimental immunology·2019

Search research articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Jul 5, 2026

Auricular Acupressure as an Adjuvant Treatment for Wheezing in Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Auricular Acupressure as an Adjuvant Treatment for Wheezing in Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Published on: May 10, 2024

Physician advice for smoking cessation.

L F Stead¹, G Bergson, T Lancaster

¹University of Oxford, Department of Primary Health Care, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, UK OX3 7LF. lindsay.stead@dphpc.ox.ac.uk

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

|April 22, 2008

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Physician advice modestly increases smoking cessation rates. Brief interventions can boost quitting by 1-3%, with intensive interventions showing a small additional benefit.

More Related Videos

Electroencephalographic, Heart Rate, and Galvanic Skin Response Assessment for an Advertising Perception Study: Application to Antismoking Public Service Announcements

Electroencephalographic, Heart Rate, and Galvanic Skin Response Assessment for an Advertising Perception Study: Application to Antismoking Public Service Announcements

Published on: August 28, 2017

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Jul 5, 2026

Auricular Acupressure as an Adjuvant Treatment for Wheezing in Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Auricular Acupressure as an Adjuvant Treatment for Wheezing in Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Published on: May 10, 2024

Electroencephalographic, Heart Rate, and Galvanic Skin Response Assessment for an Advertising Perception Study: Application to Antismoking Public Service Announcements

Electroencephalographic, Heart Rate, and Galvanic Skin Response Assessment for an Advertising Perception Study: Application to Antismoking Public Service Announcements

Published on: August 28, 2017

Area of Science:

Public Health
Preventive Medicine
Behavioral Science

Background:

Healthcare professionals routinely advise patients to quit smoking.
Smoking cessation advice can range from brief interventions to intensive programs.

Purpose of the Study:

Evaluate the effectiveness of physician advice in promoting smoking cessation.
Compare minimal versus intensive physician interventions.
Assess aids to smoking cessation advice.
Determine the impact of anti-smoking advice on mortality.

Main Methods:

Systematic review of randomized trials from the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group.
Included trials assessed smoking abstinence at least six months post-intervention.
Meta-analysis used a Mantel-Haenszel fixed effect model.

Main Results:

41 trials involving over 31,000 smokers were analyzed.
Brief physician advice significantly increased quitting rates (RR 1.66).
Intensive interventions showed a higher effect (RR 1.84), with a small advantage over minimal advice (RR 1.37).

Conclusions:

Physician advice yields a small but significant increase in smoking cessation rates.
Brief advice can increase quitting by an additional 1-3%.
More intensive interventions offer a small additional benefit.