Smoking: can we really make a difference?
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Smoking: can we really make a difference?
The enormous health benefits of stopping smoking are now well established. Doctors have a vital role in motivating smokers and initiating quit attempts. The mainstay of National Health Service smoking cessation strategy should be the routine provision of brief opportunistic intervention in primary care, backed up by referral to a specialist smoking cessation service. There is an urgent need to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0007-0769
DOI: 10.1136/heart.89.suppl_2.ii25