Smoking cessation and prognosis during long-term follow-up after stroke, TIA, and acute coronary syndrome-results from the randomized controlled NAILED trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

About 50% of patients continue to smoke after stroke and myocardial infarction. We aimed to assess the effect of a multiple risk factor intervention on long-term smoking cessation and to explore a possible association between early smoking cessation and long-term prognosis.

Material and methods

Consecutive patients with stroke/TIA/acute coronary syndrome (ACS) at Östersund Hospital during 2010-2014 were included, randomized to intervention or usual care (1:1), and followed through 2017. This substudy included participants that reported current smoking during hospitalization and were alive at 1 month post discharge when the intervention began (n = 321). The smoking cessation intervention was part of a telephone-based, multiple risk factor intervention deli

SUBMITTER: Irewall AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11554128 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature