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Key points
| • Smoking cessation interventions are simple, cheap, and effective but are not yet widely part of routine care |
| • Clinicians must develop and use routine and systematic approaches to inquiring about and recording patients' smoking status |
| • Cessation interventions need to be adapted to smokers' levels of motivation |
| • Cessation interventions need to be audited and monitored |
