Nurse practitioners' knowledge, practice and attitudes about tobacco cessation & lung cancer screening.

Purpose: To determine nurse practitioners' (NPs') knowledge, practice, and attitudes about tobacco cessation counseling and lung cancer early detection.

Data Source: A descriptive, cross-sectional survey design was used to examine NPs' approaches to primary and secondary prevention of tobacco use among patients in western New York.

Conclusions: Among the 175 respondents, NPs appropriately counseled tobacco users on tobacco cessation.