TY - JOUR
T1 - How to help your patients quit smoking
T2 - Strategies that work
AU - Wong, J. G.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - Cessation of cigarette smoking is important to promotion of good health. Costs of smoking in terms of illness, expenditures, and loss of productivity are enormous. The most successful strategies are those that combine a structured behavior modification plan with a pharmacologic aid to alleviate nicotine dependence. Primary care physicians have an especially important role in helping patients stop smoking. By helping smokers to quit, physicians can improve the general health of these patients and significantly reduce the healthcare burden on society.
AB - Cessation of cigarette smoking is important to promotion of good health. Costs of smoking in terms of illness, expenditures, and loss of productivity are enormous. The most successful strategies are those that combine a structured behavior modification plan with a pharmacologic aid to alleviate nicotine dependence. Primary care physicians have an especially important role in helping patients stop smoking. By helping smokers to quit, physicians can improve the general health of these patients and significantly reduce the healthcare burden on society.
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U2 - 10.1080/00325481.1993.11945688
DO - 10.1080/00325481.1993.11945688
M3 - Article
C2 - 8321772
AN - SCOPUS:0027181358
SN - 0032-5481
VL - 94
SP - 197
EP - 201
JO - Postgraduate medicine
JF - Postgraduate medicine
IS - 1
ER -