Practical lifestyle interventions for Australian GPs including obesity management, GLP-1 prescribing, sleep, smoking cessation and alcohol interventions.
Many chronic diseases seen in general practice are strongly influenced by lifestyle factors.
From obesity and metabolic disease to sleep problems, alcohol use, and smoking, GPs play a key role in helping patients make practical and sustainable lifestyle changes.
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Lifestyle medicine works best when integrated into structured chronic disease care plans, with clear goals, follow-up, and realistic behavioural strategies.
Below you’ll find guides exploring lifestyle interventions that can be applied in everyday general practice.
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A practical guide for Australian GPs on identifying, assessing, and managing excessive alcohol use in general practice. Evidence-based frameworks, documentation strategy, and care planning tools to reduce patient harm.
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A practical guide for Australian GPs on helping patients build a sustainable exercise habit using SMART goals and Atomic Habits principles. Move beyond motivation and create a structured behavioural system for long-term physical activity.
A practical guide for Australian GPs on managing excessive caffeine intake using SMART goals and Atomic Habits principles. Learn how to reduce dependency, improve sleep, and stabilise energy through structured behavioural systems.
A practical guide for Australian GPs on helping patients quit smoking using SMART goals and Atomic Habits principles. Move beyond motivation and build a structured behavioural system for sustainable smoking cessation.
A practical guide for Australian GPs on helping patients build sustainable dietary habits using SMART goals and Atomic Habits principles. Move beyond crash diets and create structured systems for long-term metabolic health.
A practical guide for Australian GPs on how to prescribe Ozempic and Wegovy, including assessment, PBS criteria, obesity work-up, lifestyle foundations, medication options, and deprescribing obesogenic drugs.