{"id":772,"date":"2015-03-23T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T06:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=772"},"modified":"2015-03-24T02:02:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T11:02:07","slug":"mar-23-benefits-of-our-no-smoking-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Mar. 23 &#8211; Benefits of our No Smoking Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Mar. 23 &#8211; Benefits of our No Smoking Policy\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=772\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/no-smoking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-773\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/no-smoking.jpg\" alt=\"no smoking\" width=\"92\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the policies of our health care system that I receive the most complaints about is our 100% no smoking policy on any property whether you are outside or inside a building.\u00a0 The policy is logical to me since the dangers posed to non-smokers from second hand smoke are documented.\u00a0 Also as an institution dedicated to improving health it would be inconsistent to encourage being healthy and encourage smoking at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone once in a while a patient tells me they are glad we have a no smoking policy.\u00a0 This always gets my attention.\u00a0 Hearing people speak favorably about the policy is an infrequent event for me.\u00a0 Several patients tell me that after a hospital stay of several days when they have not smoked they have a resolve to continue to cease smoking when they are discharged.\u00a0 I have not done any record keeping to be able to tell you what the percentage of patients is who resolve to cease smoking.\u00a0 I have no data on how many are able to keep their resolution when they are discharged.\u00a0 I love the idea that our enforced no smoking period is helping patients make a change in behavior that not only helps improve their health but also helps improve the health of those around them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the policies of our health care system that I receive the most complaints about is our 100% no smoking policy on any property whether you are outside or inside a building.\u00a0 The policy is logical to me since the dangers posed to non-smokers from second hand smoke are documented.\u00a0 Also as an institution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=772\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mar. 23 &#8211; Benefits of our No Smoking Policy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}