The TEAM project: the effectiveness of smoking cessation intervention with hospital patients

Nursing intervention and smoking cessation: Meta-analysis update

“…[21][22][23]43 The most recent trials reported some form of biochemical verification of self-reports. 26,28,31,32,33,39 All of the trials used convenience rather than randomly selected samples. Only one of the studies 50 did not let participants know initially that they were going to be part of a smoking-cessation study.…”

“…One trial 20 had two parts with randomization at each stage, so it is treated here as two separate studies, making a total of 35 studies. Fifteen trials [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] intervened with hospitalized patients; one 36 recruited hospitalized patients, but the intervention was given after discharge. Fifteen studies 20,37-50 recruited patients from primary care or outpatient clinics.…”

“…Of the high-intensity intervention studies, 10 had nurses with specific training for whom the intervention was a core component of their nursing role. 24,26,[28][29][30][34][35][36]38,39 Three studies were delivered by nurses for whom it was not a core task. 22,40,44 In the last study, 44 the intervention was delivered either by pediatric nurses or by health educators.…”

Smoking cessation interventions in the pre-admission clinic: assessing two approaches

“…We had difficulty providing in-hospital counselling for all patients. This problem has previously been encountered; Hennrikus et al 20 were able to deliver only 56% of scheduled counselling sessions in-hospital, the remaining sessions were given by phone soon after discharge. These results underscore how important it is to share implementation data in effectiveness trials when conditions may not be as tightly controlled or as optimal as in a Phase I-III trial.…”

Motivational Interviewing for Smoking Cessation and Increase of Physical Activity in Αdults

“…After being advised on smoking cessation, they exhibited increased successful effort probabilities and abstinence maintenance (Shah et al, 2010;Rigotti, Regan, Majchrzak, Knight, & Wechsler, 2002). However, the effectiveness of these interventions has suffered dispute by researchers who claimed that differences in quit rates are not significant (Hennrikus et al, 2005;Hjalmarson & Boethius, 2007). As for the time appropriateness, it has been argued that the use of counselling immediately after the day of stop smoking on a daily basis (Front-Loaded Counselling) can ensure greater abstinence and reduce chances of relapse a year later, as opposed to the use of counselling on a weekly basis throughout the participants quit effort (Garvey et al, 2012).…”