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Comment
. 2008 Sep;57(9):584-6.

Help smokers quit: tell them their "lung age"

Kristen Deane  1 , James J Stevermer, John Hickner
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Help smokers quit: tell them their "lung age"

Kristen Deane et al. J Fam Pract. 2008 Sep.

Abstract

Perform spirometry on patients who smoke-even if they're asymptomatic-and show them their lung age-that is, the average age of a nonsmoker with a forced expiratory volume at 1 second (FEV1) equal to theirs. Doing so can help patients kick the habit.

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