Table 1.

Brief advice on smoking cessation

• Brief advice from health professionals should be given to all smokers. Doing so causes 2-3% of smokers to become long term abstainers and is probably the most cost effective clinical intervention

• “The best thing you can do for your health is to stop smoking, and I advise you to stop as soon as possible. The sooner you stop the better.”

• “How do you feel about your smoking?”

• “How do you feel about tackling your smoking now?”