Ask about smoking, not quitting: a chronic disease approach to assessing and treating tobacco use
Abstract Tobacco use is a chronic relapsing disease, and remains the leading cause of preventable death in much of the world. Increasingly, tobacco use, chiefly cigarette smoking, is being framed as a chronic disease, with periods of use and periods of abstinence. An implicit component of this conce...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-09-01
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Series: | Addiction Science & Clinical Practice |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13722-019-0159-z |