“Every year we try to talk about primary and secondary prevention, about community-hospital interaction between family doctors and specialists, cardiologist and other colleagues. The topic of smoking is addressed by medical science in my opinion with a bit of inertia, we should institutions also helped doctors to provide scientific data and address primary prevention”. As Roberto Pescatori, doctor president of the XV Congress 'In the Heart of Santa'intervenes on the topic of smoking, inmeeting between doctors and cardiologists, underway in Santa Margherita Ligure (Genoa).
“If it is true that the primary objective obviously remains the cessation of smoking and the prevention of smoking for the young patient – continues Pescatori – we however have the problem of secondary prevention of the patient who continues to smoke or in any case who has not stopped completely with the smoking. It is precisely on this that the institutions should intervene more, meeting the good will of the doctor, whether he is a general practitioner or a hospital cardiologist”.
Precisely for this reason “it is very important to broaden the discussion – insists Pescatori – The debate exceeded the time available precisely due to the need for colleagues to intervene, to ask questions on how to help patients. There are possibilities for secondary prevention. We have devices that they allow us to avoid combustion, while maintaining a gesture and this is very important: if we give the patient the possibility of maintaining a gesture in his daily life that simulates the gesture of the cigarette, while avoiding any type of combustion – concludes the doctor – we allow him to break down completely, or almost, all the risk factors of combusted nicotine, and gradually achieve smoking cessation”.
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