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Use your power to help patients quit smoking: the more the message is repeated, the more likely it is to be heeded. 'It's a dose-response relationship.'.(Clinical Rounds)
NEW ORLEANS -- Yes, you can get your patients to quit smoking.
Physicians "really do have the tools to get people to quit smoking. We need to give patients a clear and unambiguous message," Dr. William C. Bailey said at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians.
The more the message is repeated, the more likely patients are to heed it. "It's a dose-response relationship," noted Dr. Bailey, professor of medicine and Eminent Scholar Chair in Pulmonary Diseases at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
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