Intensive smoking-cessation program can double quit rate in cardiac patients..

June 23, 2009 - An intensive program to stop smoking works better than a minimal intervention for patients admitted to hospital for coronary artery bypass surgery or myocardial infarction. Patients in the intensive program received 45–60 minutes of bedside education and counseling, take-home materials and 7 counseling sessions with a nurse by telephone after discharge. Significantly more patients in the intensive program were abstinent at 1 year.

PAPER: Smoking cessation initiated during hospital stay for patients with coronary artery disease: a randomized controlled trial, Patricia M. Smith, PhD and Ellen Burgess, MD, Canadian Medical Association Journal June 23, 2009; 180 (13), ABSTRACT...

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PAPER: Helping smokers with cardiac disease to abstain from tobacco after a stay in hospital, Nancy A. Rigotti, MD, Canadian Medical Association Journal June 23, 2009; 180 (13), ABSTRACT..