Helping your patients who smoke quit for good

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One of your patients is worried about a chronic cough and would like to stop smoking. He has tried several times but failed. One of your teenaged patients also smokes but is more concerned about image than health. How can you motivate these patients to stop smoking and help them to do so successfully? How would your advice to the first patient differ from that to the teenager? The authors describe an approach, directed to a patient's stage of smoking cessation, that effectively uses limited office time for both motivational and behavioral guidance.