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Return to Smoking Following a Smoke‐Free Psychiatric Hospitalization
Author(s) -
Prochaska Judith J.,
Fletcher Lindsay,
Hall Stephen E.,
Hall Sharon M.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1080/10550490500419011
Subject(s) - abstinence , medicine , nicotine replacement therapy , smoking cessation , psychiatry , nicotine , quit smoking , nicotine dependence , nicotine withdrawal , smoke , psychiatric hospital , emergency medicine , physics , pathology , meteorology
This study examined the smoking behaviors and motivations of 100 patients hospitalized in a smoke‐free psychiatry unit. The sample averaged nineteen cigarettes per day and had a history of repeated failed quit attempts, yet 65% expressed interest in quitting. During hospitalization, nicotine replacement was provided to 70% of smokers to manage nicotine withdrawal. Provider counseling for smoking cessation, however, was rare, and all patients returned to smoking within five weeks of hospital discharge. The inpatient setting provides a potential site for initiating tobacco dependence treatment; however to maintain abstinence following hospital discharge, greater support is needed.