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EW19 Motivational interviewing for smoking cessation in COPD smokers

Educational skills workshop
Chairs: Paraskevi Katsaounou (Athens, Greece)
Aims: To review the different strategies used to increase the motivation of COPD smokers to quit smoking.
Target audience: Pulmonologists, nurses, thoracic surgeons, fellows and residents.

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Workstation 1: Different theories of motivation Lynne Johnston (Newcastle, United Kingdom)
Workstation 2: How to measure motivation
Workstation 3: The different phases of motivational interviewing Dimos Fotopoulos (Rethymnon, Greece)
Workstation 4: The roles spirometry and lung age play in increasing the motivation of COPD patients Carlos Andres Jimenez Ruiz (Madrid, Spain)