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. 2014 Nov;134(5):933–941. doi: 10.1542/peds.2014-0639

TABLE 2.

Parental Smoking Cessation Assistance Delivery After Initial Intervention Implementation

Characteristic Intervention (N = 556), n (%) Control (N = 635), n (%) P
Ask
 Parent smoking status 330 (59.4) 207 (32.6) <.0001
 Smoke-free home 364 (65.5) 255 (40.2) <.0001
 Smoke-free car 313 (56.3) 208 (32.8) <.0001
 Any tobacco triple screenera question 397 (71.4) 288 (45.4) <.0001
 All tobacco triple screener questions 263 (47.3) 157 (24.7) <.0001
Advise
 Quit smoking 281 (50.5) 171 (26.9) <.0001
 Smoke-free home 329 (59.2) 237 (37.3) <.0001
 Smoke-free car 292 (52.5) 208 (32.8) <.0001
 To reduce any SHS exposure of child 359 (64.6) 264 (41.6) <.0001
 To reduce all SHS exposures of child 229 (41.2) 131 (20.6) <.0001
Assist
 Discuss smoking cessation medication 229 (41.2) 68 (10.7) <.0001
 Give prescription for smoking cessation medication 103 (18.5) 15 (2.4) <.0001
 Recommend a quitline program 207 (37.2) 59 (9.3) <.0001
 Enroll in a quitline 23 (4.1) 7 (1.1) .003
 Discuss other methods and strategies to help quit smoking 140 (25.2) 61 (9.6) <.0001
 Any assistance 304 (54.7) 122 (19.2) <.0001

Excluded all the parents who did not have a visit to their child’s pediatric office in the last 12 mo; N = 1191. SHS, secondhand smoke.

a

Tobacco triple screener: screen parents for smoking status, smoke-free home rules, and smoke-free car rules.