期刊
ADDICTION
卷 110, 期 3, 页码 381-386出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/add.12734
关键词
Access; evaluation; evidence-based practice; harm reduction; health care quality; health services; motivation; practice guidelines; smoking cessation; tobacco use disorder
The World Health Organization estimates that 1 billion people will die from tobacco-related illnesses this century. Most health-care providers, however, fail to treat tobacco dependence. This may be due in part to the treatment default'. Guidelines in many countries recommend that health-care providers: (i) ask patients if they are ready' to quit using tobacco; and (ii) provide treatment only to those who state they are ready to quit. For other health conditionsdiabetes, hypertension, asthma and even substance abusetreatment guidelines direct health-care providers to identify the health condition and initiate evidence-based treatment. As with any medical care, patients are free to declinethey can opt out' from care. If patients do nothing, they will receive care. For tobacco users, however, the treatment default is often that they have to opt in' to treatment. This drastically limits the reach of tobacco treatment because, at any given encounter, a minority of tobacco users will say they are ready to quit. As a result, few are offered treatment. It is time to change the treatment default for tobacco dependence. All tobacco users should be offered evidence-based care, without being screened for readiness as a precondition for receiving treatment. Opt-out care for tobacco dependence is warranted because changing defaults has been shown to change choices and outcomes for numerous health behaviors, and most tobacco users want to quit; there is little to no evidence supporting the utility of assessing readiness to quit, and an opt-out default is more ethical.
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