Lifestyle Advice and Management
- Author:
Kian Chung Ong
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease;
Lung cancer;
Public health burden;
FEV1;
Shortness of breath
- From:The Singapore Family Physician
2012;38(3):10-11
- CountrySingapore
- Language:English
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Abstract:
Smoking cessation is a most cost-effective medical intervention and helping our patients stop smoking is a highly worthwhile endeavor. A doctor providing smoking cessation counseling will do well to first realise why many smokers are unwilling (or unable) to quit. This article focuses on why a doctor should emphasise smoking cessation in the prevention and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
