Helping your relatives to quit smoking

Smoking habit has become an urgent issue not only in the global life but also particularly in dental field. The facts that smoking habits shows its clinical manifestation in oral health are enormous. Dentists are suggested to encourage their patients is smoking cessation, in a serial of manner.

Here’s the list: The four As and Ds

Ask: do the patients have smoking habit? This investigation must be documented

Advise: in many (or even every) dental visit, don’t forget to pay attention to the patient’s smoking status, in such an elegant fashion, surely

Assist: help the patient to get best information related to the danger of tobacco

Arrange: whenever patients ready to quit, help him/her to compose the next steps

While the four Ds are recommended to patients: Delay acting on the urge to smoke, Deep Breath, Drink Water, Do something else.

I find these steps are commonly relevant to most addiction circumstances (aren’t they?)

One thing to remember: the duty to promote smoking cessation does not only belong to health professionals, but generally everyone caring in quality of life