[The practice guideline 'Smoking cessation' from the Dutch College of General Practitioners; a response from the perspective of pulmonary medicine].
The practice guideline 'Smoking cessation' from the Dutch College of General Practitioners has been published. If general practitioners are going to use the standard, this can have a great impact on smoking in the Dutch population. A decrease in smokers among the population will also have an impact on several smoking-related chronic diseases from a preventive point of view. The guideline emphasizes that smoking cessation is not a one-stop shop but that it requires a long-term effort.
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D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D015272:Pulmonary Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013997:Time Factors