Changing the default for tobacco-cessation treatment in an inpatient setting: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most health care providers do not treat tobacco dependence routinely. This may in part be due to the treatment "default." Current treatment guidelines recommend that providers (1) ask patients if they are willing to quit and (2) provide cessation-focused medications and counseling only to smokers who state that they are willing to quit. The default is that patients have to "opt in" to receive cessation assistance: providers ask smokers if they are willing to quit, and only offer medications and cessation support to those who say "yes." This drastically limits the reach of cessation services because, at any given encounter, only one in three smokers say that they are ready to quit. The objective of this study is to determine the impact of providing all smokers with tobacc

SUBMITTER: Faseru B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5556365 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature