4 Topic Commentaries

VA/DoD guideline broadens tobacco treatment

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  Anne Joseph, MD, MPH

  Professor of Medicine

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  University of Minnesota Medical School

  Evidence confirms that current tobacco treatment models that rely on the patient or clinician to initiate treatment fail to reach all smokers interested in quitting.

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  Russell G. Buhr, MD, PhD

  Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care; Researcher, Greater Los Angeles VA

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  University of California, Los Angeles

  TDT among those with COPD is particularly salient for veterans, who experience high rates of ongoing tobacco use.

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  Jessica W. Cook, PhD

  Director of Veterans Research, UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention; Professor of Medicine

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  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  It was an incredibly rigorous process that was ultimately a really rewarding experience.

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  Tracy T. Smith, PhD

  Co-Leader, Cancer Prevention & Control Program; Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

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  MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina

  The main takeaway is for clinicians to include e-cigarettes in their toolkit of smoking cessation options.

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