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Editorial
. 2008 Mar 15;336(7644):567-8.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39506.386759.80. Epub 2008 Mar 6.

Incentives to quit smoking in primary care

Raphaël Bize, Jacques Cornuz
Editorial

Incentives to quit smoking in primary care

Raphaël Bize et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Spirometry with pictorial feedback on lung age, not just raw data, improves quit rates

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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