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The CURE Project: improving NHS smoking cessation services
Author(s) -
Ogden Joy
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1866
Subject(s) - medicine , smoking cessation , addiction , family medicine , psychiatry , pathology
Although there have been modest advances in NHS smoking cessation services over the past few years, there is still more work to be done. This article discusses the progress of the CURE Project, a new approach to tackling tobacco addiction based on the Canadian Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation and first pioneered in the UK in Greater Manchester, which aims to systematically identify all active smokers admitted to hospital and immediately offer them treatment.