Preventing children from smoking. How family physicians and pediatricians can help.
Children progress through five stages to become smokers: anticipation, initiation, experimentation, habituation, and adult smoking. Children at risk of smoking can be identified. Physicians should ask for information that predicts smoking behaviour, advise not starting, assist staying a nonsmoker, arrange follow-up visits and booster sessions, and anticipate challenges to antismoking behaviours.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010372:Pediatrics; D010819:Physician's Role; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention