TY - JOUR T1 - Anti-smoking advice from general practitioners: is a population-based approach to advice-giving feasible? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 1001 LP - 1004 VL - 50 IS - 461 AU - T Coleman AU - A Wilson Y1 - 2000/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/50/461/1001.abstract N2 - General practitioners' (GPs') advice against smoking has a small, beneficial effect on patients' smoking. Consequently, GPs have been urged to adopt a population-based approach to advice-giving that involves discussing smoking repeatedly with the maximum possible number of smokers. This discussion paper assesses how far GPs' current clinical practice is from a population-based approach to advice-giving and finds that GPs prefer a problem-orientated approach to advising those who present with smoking-related problems. Discussion focuses on the feasibility of suggesting that GPs adopt a population-based approach instead. ER -