- Title
- Pilot of a preoperative smoking cessation intervention incorporating post-discharge support from a Quitline
- Creator
- Wolfenden, Luke; Wiggers, John; Campbell, Elizabeth; Knight, Jenny
- Relation
- Health Promotion Journal of Australia Vol. 19, Issue 2, p. 158-160
- Relation
- http://www.publish.csiro.au/HE/HE08158
- Publisher
- Australian Health Promotion Association
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Issue addressed: The study sought to assess the potential efficacy of a comprehensive smoking cessation intervention for surgical patients. Methods: The study employed a modified historical controlled trial design. Participants were recruited from a preoperative clinic of an Australian hospital in 2003. Patients allocated to the experimental group received a comprehensive smoking cessation intervention incorporating preoperative computerised smoking cessation counselling, tailored self-help material, brief advice from preoperative clinical staff, NRT, telephone counselling, and proactive post-discharge telephone support from a Quitline. Results: At the six month follow-up 12% of 66 usual care control group participants and 25% of 52 experimental group participants reported being abstinent (p=0.07). Conclusions: Comprehensive smoking cessation interventions initiated preoperatively and incorporating post-discharge support from a Quitline may be efficacious in increasing smoking abstinence.
- Subject
- smoking cessation; surgical patients; preoperative intervention; Quitline
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/39671
- Identifier
- uon:4477
- Identifier
- ISSN:1036-1073
- Language
- eng
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