Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients

Are Emergency Chest Pain Patients Ready to Quit Smoking?

“…This measure of perceived risk was also positively associated with readiness to quit smoking. These results are consistent with a recent review by Rigotti and colleagues 38 indicating that cessation rates among hospitalized patients varies by medical condition. Among studies in that review, patients who had cardiovascular disease were most likely to successfully quit 38 .…”

“…These results are consistent with a recent review by Rigotti and colleagues 38 indicating that cessation rates among hospitalized patients varies by medical condition. Among studies in that review, patients who had cardiovascular disease were most likely to successfully quit 38 . Thus, interventions that raise patients' awareness of the link between heart disease and smoking may be especially appropriate for the OU setting.…”

Are Emergency Chest Pain Patients Ready to Quit Smoking?

“…This measure of perceived risk was also positively associated with readiness to quit smoking. These results are consistent with a recent review by Rigotti and colleagues 38 indicating that cessation rates among hospitalized patients varies by medical condition. Among studies in that review, patients who had cardiovascular disease were most likely to successfully quit 38 .…”

“…These results are consistent with a recent review by Rigotti and colleagues 38 indicating that cessation rates among hospitalized patients varies by medical condition. Among studies in that review, patients who had cardiovascular disease were most likely to successfully quit 38 . Thus, interventions that raise patients' awareness of the link between heart disease and smoking may be especially appropriate for the OU setting.…”

Helping hospitalized smokers in Hong Kong quit smoking by understanding their risk perception, behaviour, and attitudes related to smoking

“…Another major barrier reported by some participants was withdrawal symptoms or cigarette cravings. This is consistent with previous literature that showed smokers who experienced more severe withdrawal symptoms were less likely to successfully achieve long‐term abstinence (Campos Nani et al, ; Rigotti et al, ; Zuo, Rabinovich, & Gilbert, ). In general, nicotine withdrawal symptoms appear soon after tobacco abstinence and can last for several weeks (Hughes, ; Vandrey, Budney, Hughes, & Liguori, ).…”

Effectiveness of a telephone delivered and a face-to-face delivered counseling intervention for smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease: a 6-month follow-up

“…On the other hand, factors found to impede cardiac patients' abstinence six months after discharge were having made a previous quit attempt, having a partner who smoked, and a high level of depression at the time of hospital admission. Consistent with our hypothesis and previous findings (Barth et al, 2008;Rigotti et al, 2012), the results of this study show that high intensity counseling that includes extended support for at least one month after discharge is effective in assisting cardiac patients to quit smoking. The finding that TC and FC are comparably effective in increasing quit rates is in line with previous studies in a general population of smokers (Lancaster & Stead, 2005;Rigotti et al, 2008;Stead et al, 2006).…”

Are Emergency Chest Pain Patients Ready to Quit Smoking?

“…This measure of perceived risk was also positively associated with readiness to quit smoking. These results are consistent with a recent review by Rigotti and colleagues 38 indicating that cessation rates among hospitalized patients varies by medical condition. Among studies in that review, patients who had cardiovascular disease were most likely to successfully quit 38 .…”

“…These results are consistent with a recent review by Rigotti and colleagues 38 indicating that cessation rates among hospitalized patients varies by medical condition. Among studies in that review, patients who had cardiovascular disease were most likely to successfully quit 38 . Thus, interventions that raise patients' awareness of the link between heart disease and smoking may be especially appropriate for the OU setting.…”

Helping hospitalized smokers in Hong Kong quit smoking by understanding their risk perception, behaviour, and attitudes related to smoking

“…Another major barrier reported by some participants was withdrawal symptoms or cigarette cravings. This is consistent with previous literature that showed smokers who experienced more severe withdrawal symptoms were less likely to successfully achieve long‐term abstinence (Campos Nani et al, ; Rigotti et al, ; Zuo, Rabinovich, & Gilbert, ). In general, nicotine withdrawal symptoms appear soon after tobacco abstinence and can last for several weeks (Hughes, ; Vandrey, Budney, Hughes, & Liguori, ).…”

Effectiveness of a telephone delivered and a face-to-face delivered counseling intervention for smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease: a 6-month follow-up

“…On the other hand, factors found to impede cardiac patients' abstinence six months after discharge were having made a previous quit attempt, having a partner who smoked, and a high level of depression at the time of hospital admission. Consistent with our hypothesis and previous findings (Barth et al, 2008;Rigotti et al, 2012), the results of this study show that high intensity counseling that includes extended support for at least one month after discharge is effective in assisting cardiac patients to quit smoking. The finding that TC and FC are comparably effective in increasing quit rates is in line with previous studies in a general population of smokers (Lancaster & Stead, 2005;Rigotti et al, 2008;Stead et al, 2006).…”

Are Emergency Chest Pain Patients Ready to Quit Smoking?

“…This measure of perceived risk was also positively associated with readiness to quit smoking. These results are consistent with a recent review by Rigotti and colleagues 38 indicating that cessation rates among hospitalized patients varies by medical condition. Among studies in that review, patients who had cardiovascular disease were most likely to successfully quit 38 .…”

“…These results are consistent with a recent review by Rigotti and colleagues 38 indicating that cessation rates among hospitalized patients varies by medical condition. Among studies in that review, patients who had cardiovascular disease were most likely to successfully quit 38 . Thus, interventions that raise patients' awareness of the link between heart disease and smoking may be especially appropriate for the OU setting.…”

Helping hospitalized smokers in Hong Kong quit smoking by understanding their risk perception, behaviour, and attitudes related to smoking

“…Another major barrier reported by some participants was withdrawal symptoms or cigarette cravings. This is consistent with previous literature that showed smokers who experienced more severe withdrawal symptoms were less likely to successfully achieve long‐term abstinence (Campos Nani et al, ; Rigotti et al, ; Zuo, Rabinovich, & Gilbert, ). In general, nicotine withdrawal symptoms appear soon after tobacco abstinence and can last for several weeks (Hughes, ; Vandrey, Budney, Hughes, & Liguori, ).…”

Effectiveness of a telephone delivered and a face-to-face delivered counseling intervention for smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease: a 6-month follow-up

“…On the other hand, factors found to impede cardiac patients' abstinence six months after discharge were having made a previous quit attempt, having a partner who smoked, and a high level of depression at the time of hospital admission. Consistent with our hypothesis and previous findings (Barth et al, 2008;Rigotti et al, 2012), the results of this study show that high intensity counseling that includes extended support for at least one month after discharge is effective in assisting cardiac patients to quit smoking. The finding that TC and FC are comparably effective in increasing quit rates is in line with previous studies in a general population of smokers (Lancaster & Stead, 2005;Rigotti et al, 2008;Stead et al, 2006).…”