A Post-Discharge Smoking-Cessation Intervention for Hospital Patients: Helping Hand 2 Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Hospitalization provides an opportunity for smokers to quit, but tobacco-cessation interventions started in hospital must continue after discharge to be effective. This study aimed to improve the scalability of a proven effective post-discharge intervention by incorporating referral to a telephone quitline, a nationally available cessation resource.

Study design

A three-site RCT compared Sustained Care, a post-discharge tobacco-cessation intervention, with Standard Care among hospitalized adult smokers who wanted to quit smoking and received in-hospital tobacco-cessation counseling.

Setting/participants

A total of 1,357 daily smokers admitted to three hospitals were enrolled from December 2012 to July 2014.

Intervention

Sustained Care started at di

SUBMITTER: Rigotti NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5031242 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature