title: [How can we help our patients to stop smoking?].
abstract: Anti-smoking counseling by physicians has demonstrated to be the treatment modality of smokers with the best cost-benefit ratio. The basic stages of physician intervention are summarized in the four "A's" of clinical activities: ask, advise, assist, arrange. The systematic use of this methodology by the health teams could achieve 80000 ex-smokers per year in our country.
authors: Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias y Cirugía Torácica (INERyCT), Servicio de Salud Metropolitano Oriente, Ministerio de Salud, Santiago de Chile.
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authors: Bello
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention
vernacular_title: Como podemos ayudar a los pacientes a dejar de fumar?