More ideas on quitting smoking from the researchers on the Cochrane team. How about a hospital stay?Since hospitals are smoke-free, any smoker has to stop smoking while in the hospital, whether for a tobacco-related disease or not.
The researchers found that smokers in the hospital are particularly open to information about quitting smoking. However, only intensive interventions with at least 30 minutes a day of counselling and at least one month of supportive care after the stay show any benefit. They found that adding nicotine replacement therapy or bupropion to the plans had some additional effect, although it was not statistically significant.
Maybe we should try to offer some sort of inpatient stays to smokers who want to quit, even if they are not sick right now?
1. Hi,
My mother died from smoking related cancer and So I was very keen to quit following that. I tried patches and gums, cold turkey, acupuncture but did not manage to quit. This made me very depressed. Then a friend told me he had quit using a method called 1-2-free and i have been a non smoker now for eighteen months now, and I know i will never go back to smoking again. the method is available at http://www.12free.org
warm regards
Monica
Posted at 10:02AM on Aug 2nd 2007 by Monica Thacher