Help smokers quit: tell them their "lung age".
Perform spirometry on patients who smoke-even if they're asymptomatic-and show them their lung age-that is, the average age of a nonsmoker with a forced expiratory volume at 1 second (FEV1) equal to theirs. Doing so can help patients kick the habit.
Deane
Kristen
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Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Stevermer
James J
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Hickner
John
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