Cigarette Smoking Cessation

Authors

  • M Mujahid Salim Queens Hospital Center Long Island Jewish Medical Center and School of Medicine Health Science Center State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York Jamaica, New York
  • Amatal B Mir

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5915/21-4-13513

Keywords:

Cigarettes, Smoking cessation, Tobacco health effects

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5915/21-4-13513

Despite two decades of health warnings and numerous clinical reports concerning the negative health consequences of cigarette smoking, smoking cessation programs continue to have only limited success. Reviewed are the effects of tobacco smoking, morbidity and mortality patterns among smokers, and methods and success rates of several smoking cessation strategies.

Author Biographies

M Mujahid Salim, Queens Hospital Center Long Island Jewish Medical Center and School of Medicine Health Science Center State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York Jamaica, New York

Department of Medicine

Pulmonary Medicine Section

Queens Hospital Center Affiliation

Long Island Jewish Medical Center and School of Medicine

Health Science Center

State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York

Jamaica, New York

M.D.

Amatal B Mir

M.B.

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Published

1989-10-01

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Original Articles