Lifestyle Advice and Management

Ong Kian Chung

The Singapore Family Physician

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Lifestyle Advice and Management

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Author(s):

Ong Kian Chung

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The Singapore Family Physician Vol 38 No 3 - Lifestyle Advice for Better Patient Outcomes

Page(s):

10 - 11

Publication date:

1 July 2012

ISSN:

0377-5305

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.