Smoking in the doctor’s office

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SANE Australia offers these eight tips that primary care providers can use to help people with schizophrenia quit smoking:

• Identify smokers.
• Assess readiness to quit.
• Assess risks of smoking reduction and cessation.
• precipitation of psychotic symptoms
• development of clinical depression
• change in medication effects
• Write an individual plan.
• Use nicotine replacement therapy.
• Recommend group support.
• Monitor frequently.
• Congratulate on progress.
  

Check the web site for more smoking cessation information and guidelines.

 

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