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Nurses to encourage patients to stop smoking 

The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario is asking nurses across the province to encourage their patients to quit smoking.

Earlier this week the organization launched a new web site at www.tobaccofreernao.ca to promote RNAO guidelines for smoking cessation.

In a media release, Tazim Virani, director of the RNAO’s Best Practice Guidelines program, said the goal of the web site is to encourage every nurse in the province to ask people if they smoke, and provide the nurses with the information they need to advise, counsel and coach smokers.

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