[The influence of smoking habits of Chilean physicians on the use of the structured medical advice about smoking].

Background: Structured medical advice on smoking is the prevention strategy with better cost-effectiveness ratio.

Aim: To evaluate smoking among health care providers affect the application of this preventive strategy.

Material And Methods: We surveyed 235 physicians working in public and private hospitals in different cities over the country, about their smoking habits, their views on smoking as cardiovascular risk factor and the implementation of three key points of the structured medical advice about smoking.