Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Smokers Have Better Quit Rates With Hospital-Based Interventions Than Quitline Help, But Study Indicates Need for Longer Follow-Up
June 29, 2022
June 29, 2022
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 29 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news:
By Tom Wilemon
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 . . .
By Tom Wilemon
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 . . .