A forty-five-year-old man presents for an annual physical ex…
A forty-five-year-old man presents for an annual physical examination. He has no known chronic diseases. His body mass index is 31 kilograms per square meter. He smokes half a pack of cigarettes per day and has done so since age twenty. His father was diagnosed with colon cancer at age fifty-eight. His blood pressure today is 124/78 millimeters of mercury, and his fasting plasma glucose last year was normal. You have time to focus on one new evidence-based preventive action at this visit. Which intervention is the highest-priority topic to initiate today?