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30 Seconds to Save a Life

What Does It Take?. Ask if patient smokesAdvise patient to quitRefer smoker to telephone quitline. How Do I Do That?. Give patient number: 1-800-422-6237OR check www.smokefree.gov for state quitline number. Why Do This?. 46 million Americans smoke, and 70 percent want to quitPatients are twice a

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30 Seconds to Save a Life

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    1. 30 Seconds to Save a Life It’s not hard to steer smokers toward tobacco cessation

    2. What Does It Take? Ask if patient smokes Advise patient to quit Refer smoker to telephone quitline

    3. How Do I Do That? Give patient number: 1-800-422-6237 OR check www.smokefree.gov for state quitline number

    4. Why Do This? 46 million Americans smoke, and 70 percent want to quit Patients are twice as likely to try quitting with advice from a clinician Chances of success at least double with a call to the quitline New drugs help smokers kick the addiction

    5. Why? No other single intervention will make a bigger difference in saving lives and avoiding disability.

    6. How Hard Is It? It takes 30 seconds to save a life. This is very real– half of all smokers will die from smoking.

    7. The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center

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