World No Tobacco Day
May 31, 2006, I am smoke free: Domus Medica participated
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New recommendation
Quit smoking
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Why quit smoking?
One smoker out of two dies from a pathology related to smoking, and this on average takes fourteen years for non-smokers. Each cigarette smoked costs the smoker on average ten minutes of his life. Cardiovascular diseases, COPD and lung cancer are the main causes of excess mortality related to smoking.
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e-learning package
When advice alone is not enough. Working with patients on healthy behavior
more Short motivational interventions:
the practice. Skills course 'Guiding behavioural change'
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Patient leaflet
Quitting smoking, why and how?
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Toolkit
Aid for guiding smokers
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Smoking at work
Smoking ban since January 2006
more Test your knowledge about smoking
download the test
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ABC model
card for smoking cessation guidance more
"Good practice" examples taken from (general practitioner) life more
Healthy Behavior Manual
for use in the LOK
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Risk for the passive smoker
Epidemiological studies have shown that in a non-smoker exposed to passive smoking the morbidity and mortality risk increases. Children are certainly very sensitive to this both during and after pregnancy.
The benefits of quitting smoking
Quitting smoking is the only effective intervention for the health of smokers. It has many benefits in the short term, because it immediately reduces cardiovascular risks. In the case of COPD, quitting smoking is the only treatment that influences the progression of the disease, and this from the first year. In the long term, quitting smoking reduces the risk of all diseases linked to smoking.
Quitting smoking before the age of 35 eliminates almost all health effects of smoking. Quitting smoking at 60, 50, 40 or 30 increases life expectancy by three, six, nine or ten years respectively. A study by British doctors has shown that life expectancy would increase even further thanks to quitting smoking after the age of 65 .