PAs can improve the health of their patients by promoting healthy life-styles. By integrating a smoking cessation program into a surgical practice, the authors were able to achieve a cessation rate of 64% at 6 months and 1 year. The method, which includes screening, education, motivation, and follow-up, is applicable to any type of practice.

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