The American Academy of Family Physicians' seven-step approach for discouraging tobacco use in patients.1. Become involved in and/or and/or conj. Used to indicate that either or both of the items connected by it are involved. Usage Note: And/or is widely used in legal and business writing. initiate activities aimed at preventing children from starting tobacco use. 2. Take an active role in educating elected officials and advocating anti-tobacco laws. 3. Identify tobacco use as a women's health Women's Health Definition Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues. issue and educate female patients. 4. Record all patients' tobacco use. 5. List tobacco use as a contributing factor in medical records and on death certificates of patients who die from tobacco-related disease. 6. Work with organizations that promote smoking cessation smoking cessation Public health Temporary or permanent halting of habitual cigarette smoking; withdrawal therapies–eg, hypnosis, psychotherapy, group counseling, exposing smokers to Pts with terminal lung CA and nicotine chewing gum are often ineffective. . 7. Use your influence to oppose US tobacco exportation whenever possible. From American Family Physician The American Family Physician is a medical journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians. See also
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