Exploring ways to help hospital patients stop smoking

Completed

• Conditions: Topic: Generic Health Relevance and Cross Cutting Themes; Subtopic: Generic Health Relevance (all Subtopics); Disease: Public Health Research; Not Applicable; Public Health Research

• Registration Number: ISRCTN25441641
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Nottingham (UK)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-10-28
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1300

Inclusion Criteria

1. Adult patients 16 years and older, either sex
2. Admitted to one of eighteen medical wards at the Nottingham City Hospital for a medical condition or illness
3. Current smokers, or have smoked regularly within 28 days of admission or the onset of the illness causing admission

Exclusion Criteria

1. Do not consent to participate
2. Too ill to understand the information and consent forms

All other smokers will be eligible for inclusion. Decisions to prescribe nicotine replacement therapy will be made in discussion with supervising clinicians. The default will however be to prescribe NRT if it seems otherwise more likely than not that the patient will smoke.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified