Single session intervention does not make smokers quit after myocardial infarction

A one session bedside intervention by cardiac rehabilitation nurses does not lead to an increase in the number of smokers who manage to give up smoking after myocardial infarction or cardiac bypass surgery. In a large randomised study, Hajek and colleagues (p 87) found that nearly two thirds of patients who had seemed motivated to give up had started smoking again by 12 months after discharge, whether they had received the intervention or not.


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Brief intervention during hospital admission to help patients to give up smoking after myocardial infarction and bypass surgery: randomised controlled trial
Peter Hajek, Tamara Z Taylor, and Peter Mills
BMJ 2002 324: 87-89. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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