The clinical respiratory journal
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While guidelines recommend all doctors to ask their patients about their smoking habits and, in case they smoke, offer cessation advice, limited data are available about hospital doctors' attitudes toward these recommendations. We aimed to examine hospital doctors' attitudes toward asking their patients about their smoking habits, informing about the health benefits of stopping, and offering help to quit smoking. ⋯ In conclusion, about one-quarter to one-third of Norwegian hospital doctors seem to disagree with current guidelines that all doctors should address their patients' smoking habits.