Underutilization of Evidence‐Based Smoking Cessation Support Strategies Despite High Smoking Addiction Burden in Peripheral Artery Disease Specialty Care: Insights from the International PORTRAIT Registry
Patel KK, Jones PG, Ellerbeck EF, Buchanan DM, Chan PS, Pacheco CM, Moneta G, Spertus JA, Smolderen KG. Underutilization of Evidence‐Based Smoking Cessation Support Strategies Despite High Smoking Addiction Burden in Peripheral Artery Disease Specialty Care: Insights from the International PORTRAIT Registry. Journal Of The American Heart Association 2018, 7: e010076. PMID: 30371269, PMCID: PMC6474973, DOI: 10.1161/jaha.118.010076.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVascular specialty clinicsPeripheral artery diseaseCessation interventionsActive smokersSpecialty clinicEvidence-based cessation interventionsThird of patientsProbability of relapseImportant risk factorBackground SmokingInitial quittersPORTRAIT registryCessation counselingPharmacologic treatmentArtery diseaseInitial visitSmoking statusCessation supportSmoking cessationTreatment courseSpecialty careRisk factorsSmoking ratesPAD managementPatients