Counseling tips for helping your patients stop smoking

Helping people to stop smoking: the new smoking cessation guidelines.

Cigarette smoking is probably the most damaging of all voluntary human behaviour. Half of all smokers die prematurely as a consequence of their own smoking, 1 and in 1995 in the UK alone smoking accounted for over 120 000 deaths, of which about 65 000 were due to respiratory disease. 2 In addition to the harm caused to smokers themselves, passive exposure of other adults to cigarette smoke is a...

Tobacco and tuberculosis: could we improve tuberculosis outcomes by helping patients to stop smoking?

Affiliations: TB Competence Center, Swiss Lung Association, Berne, Switzerland. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Curry International Tuberculosis Center, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Clinical Epidemiology and Medical ...

Helping your patients to help themselves.

Why Won't Our Patients Stop Smoking?

H ealth risks related to tobacco use have been well established for 50 years, with diseases including lung cancer, other malignancies, and cardiovascular diseases linked to smoking and causing early mortality in current and former smokers (1– 4). Yet cigarette smoking remains highly prevalent in both the developing and developed worlds (5). Smoking uptake typically occurs in the teenage years, ...

Helping your baby with torticollis.

Torticollis is another name for “twisted neck.” It sounds like “tōr’ti-kol’is” when you say it out loud. Sometimes babies are born with their necks twisted more to one side than the other. Other times this can happen after birth. In either case, the neck muscle on one side is tighter or shorter than usual. (It is not a bone problem. Your baby’s bones are normal.) We don’t really know for sure w...