TY - BOOK AU - Mohammed Abdallah Elbialy AU - Amany Atef Elkarim Abouzeid , AU - Ayman Elsayed Salem , TI - Role of smoking cessation on COPD patients and asymptomatic smokers / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohammed Abdallah Elbialy , KW - Asymptomatic smokers KW - Cessation on COPD KW - Smoking N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Chest diseases and Tuberculosis; Issued also as CD N2 - Smoking is the major risk factor for development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which is characterized by progressive and not fully reversible airway obstruction . In addition to that it is well known that airway inflammation initiated by smoking leads to change in both airway and lung parenchyma ER -