A postdischarge intervention including free medication results in higher rates of smokingcessation at six months, compared with standard discharge care among hospitalized adult smokers.
Successful smokingcessation involves a 2-pronged approach, since there are 2 components to smoking - physiological and behavioral, according to Nervana Elkhadragy, PharmD, MS, TTS, of Purdue University, College of Pharmacy, Indianapolis.
Those who stop smoking have significant improvements in mental health compared with those who continue to smoke, both in healthy and clinical population.
Importance: Current tobacco use treatment approaches require smokers to request treatment or depend on the provider to initiate smokingcessation care and are therefore reactive. Objective: To assess the effect of a proactive, population-based tobacco cessation care model on use of evidence-based …
