February 28, 2010
Nurse Dedicates Career to Limiting Tobacco Dependence
Don Liebig, UCLA
Linda Sarna, a nursing professor at UCLA: " I was one of the many nurses in the 1970s who smoked—exactly what cool nurses did to take breaks."
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Don Liebig, UCLA
Linda Sarna, a nursing professor at UCLA: " I was one of the many nurses in the 1970s who smoked—exactly what cool nurses did to take breaks."
Linda Sarna didn't last long as a smoker—less than a year during nursing school. But her work to stop tobacco use as a nurse, researcher, and advocate has spanned her career. Ms. Sarna, a professor in the School of Nursing at the University of California at Los Angeles, was the principal investigator for the Tobacco Free Nurses Initiative, a project to help nurses stop smoking and teach patients how to quit, too. She is organizing a conference in China this August that will focus on how
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