How do you counsel patients with newly diagnosed advanced cancer on smoking cessation?
When a patient with advanced cancer says quitting smoking is pointless, how do you generally try to frame the conversation?
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Unless the patient has a significant chance of living for more than a year or two, I can’t imagine that the difficulty of quitting smoking is really justified for that patient.
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Smoking addiction is a mental health problem requiring advanced medical services. Many of our patients with advanced cancer have already tried dozens of times to quit, and there's a reason they can't. They're either psychologically or physically addicted, or both, and pushing them too hard can under...
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This is an issue that is dear to my heart. We have a few low-cost interventions that improve QoL and extend life for lung cancer (or for many health problems, for that matter), but smoking cessation is one of them.
There are many studies showing benefit, but here are two of note:
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