Telephone booster sessions for optimizing smoking cessation for patients in rehabilitation centers

Abstract

Smokers with smoking-related diseases who are hospitalized in rehabilitation centers should be offered smoking cessation. This is the first study evaluating whether telephone booster sessions after intensive inpatient treatment are an effective strategy. The present study was conducted in 13 rehabilitation centers for somatic disorders as a prospective multicenter study with a randomized treatment-control group design. We compared abstinence rates after hospital discharge from treatment that included a group smoking cessation program with (treatment group) and without telephone booster sessions (control group). Data from 290 smokers were analyzed. After 6 and 12 months the treatment group achieved abstinence rates twice as high as those of the control group. Men profited more from telephone booster sessions than did women. Results indicated that telephone booster sessions were highly effective (even) after an inherently intensive group program during a hospital stay. Further research should focus on the special needs of women receiving telephone counseling.

Efficacy of an internet program for smoking cessation during and after inpatient rehabilitation treatment: a quasi-randomized controlled trial

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“…Telephone support: aftercare Tobacco cessation is strengthened by revisitation in aftercare programs (Metz et al, 2007;Sussman, 2002). Follow-up telephone calls are helpful (Stead, Lancaster, & Perera, 2006) and increase abstinence rates after discharge (Metz et al, 2007).…”

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“…A booster session at 12 months after discharge including a repetition of ergonomics, relaxation and working strategies and a review of the physical training programme might be effective, and could also encourage participants to continue training. Booster sessions have proven successful in reinforcing and extending the effect of other interventions [50,51]. Such a booster session is therefore suggested as a further improvement of the IRP.…”