Smokers have better quit rates with hospital-based interventions than quitline help, but study indicates need for longer follow-up
A health care system model that offered tobacco cessation treatment to smokers being discharged from a hospital produced a higher rate of tobacco abstinence during the three-month program than referral to a state-based telephone quitline, but the advantage disappeared at six months when both treatments produced comparable quit rates, researchers have found.
By Tom Wilemon
