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Preventing Heart Attacks and Death in Patients with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
Smoking Cessation and Smoke Avoidance2
Smokers should be strongly encouraged to stop smoking and others should be warned about and avoid other people’s tobacco smoke (secondhand smoke). To help smokers quit, counseling, nicotine replacement or adjunctive therapy and formal cessation programs should be considered, as appropriate . |
The American Cancer Society offers a guide to quit smoking. For more information, click here.
For more information on the American Heart Association, their recommendations for risk prevention or their Get With The GuidelinesSM program, click here.
• Smoking Cessation and Smoke Avoidance
• Blood Pressure Control
• Lipid Management
• Physical Activity
• Weight Management
• Diabetes Management
• Antiplatelet Agents / Anticoagulants
• ACE Inhibitors
• Beta-Blockers
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