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Helping the Hard-Core Smokers Suffering from Pulmonary Diseases

Jean Perriot
- Vol. 1, Iss: 1, pp 1-1
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The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1 citations till now.

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[Smoking cessation: A challenge for cardiologists and pulmonologists].

TL;DR: The current state of smoking cessation treatment and its inadequacies, the limiting impact that doctors' own smoking has, as well as the misconceptions held by smokers and sometimes by doctors as well, which act as brakes on smoking cessation are analyzed.
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