Stop Smoking - The Challenge for Physicians

An year review cited an article from 20 18 that described approximately 55 % of smokers reporting smoky accessation attempts within the year, but only seven and a half percent remaining abstinte for a year. Why do you think the success rate is so low for these smokers? Well one reason is that very few of those people who were trying to quit used any treatment to help them succeed. And we have treatments that can help people, but they're way under used. We know that advice from clinitions gets patients to try to quit. Where we tend to fall down little bit is that we don't connect the patients that we've motivated to make a quit attempt to effective treatments. That's