Up in smoke: Helping patients with COPD

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Up in smoke: Helping patients with COPD

Sarah Mooney

Sarah Mooney

Maori woman COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a progressive disease
that is almost completely avoidable: most cases are caused by
smoking. Christchurch pharmacist Sarah Mooney looks at
medications and shares tips from the field to help your patients

John walks into your pharmacy surrounded by his usual miasma of stale tobacco smoke, and boldly proclaims that the time has come, he wants to quit