title: Help smokers quit: tell them their "lung age".
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Kristen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Deane
authors.forename: James J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Stevermer
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hickner
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