ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2002
Comparison of the smoking behaviour and attitudes of smokers who attribute respiratory symptoms to smoking with those who do not.
Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Smoking cessation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2003Pooled it
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- Successful smoking cessation with electronic cigarettes in smokers with a documented history of recurring relapses: a case series.Journal of medical case reports · 2011Article
- Awareness of blindness and other smoking-related diseases and its impact on motivation for smoking cessation in eye patients.Eye (London, England) · 2011Article
- Smoking cessation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an effective medical intervention.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2009Article
- [Views, practices, barriers, and the will to change, when counselling to give up smoking is being given].Atencion primaria · 2005Article
- Early detection of COPD in primary care: screening by invitation of smokers aged 40 to 55 years.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2004Article
- Benefits and risks of pharmacological smoking cessation therapies in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Drug safety · 2003Review
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Abstract
General practitioners' (GPs') advice against smoking helps smokers to stop; unfortunately, GPs cannot predict which patients will quit following advice. This postal questionnaire survey suggests that where smokers attribute their respiratory symptoms to smoking, they are eight times (95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.0-23.3) more likely to believe that their health will improve if they stop smoking and six times (95% CI = 1.4-23.3) more likely to intend to stop smoking.
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