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Cigarette Smoke Exposure in Mice using a Whole-Body Inhalation System
Published on: October 22, 2020
[Smoking cessation: experience in general medicine]
Abstract:
The author reviews the main psychological resistances that may be the origin of discomfort and diminishing efficiency for the general practitioner when the meets tobacco addict patients in his practice. He examines the different stages of the tobacco addicts patients according to the Prochaska and Di Clemente model and discusses stage after stage the patient's motivations and the interventions of the general practitioner. He insists on the necessary adequacy between these aspects and proposes a possible content for follow-up consultations.
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