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In-hospital offer helps lung patients quit smoking 

Long-term smokers offered a smoking cessation program when they were hospitalized for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease problems were more than twice as likely to be non-smokers 1 year later than those not offered a smoking cessation program, researchers from Denmark report.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) includes non-reversible conditions like emphysema and chronic bronchitis that impede breathing.

"Smoking cessation will slow down this process and should therefore be thought of as a treatment in the patients still smoking," Anders Borglykke told Reuters Health.

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