TY - JOUR T1 - Smoking cessation for hospitalised patients: intensive behavioural counselling started in hospital and continued after discharge increases quit rates; with additional benefit from adding nicotine replacement therapy JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 21 LP - 22 DO - 10.1136/eb-2012-100890 VL - 16 IS - 1 AU - Jennifer Bowman AU - Emily Alice Stockings Y1 - 2013/01/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/16/1/21.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Rigotti NA, Clair C, Munafò MR, et al. Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2012;5:CD001837. Hospital-initiated smoking cessation intervention, continued postdischarge for at least 1 month, should become standard practice in all (general) hospital settings. A smoking cessation intervention should be initiated with every smoker during a hospital stay. An important yet neglected area of research is the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions initiated within psychiatric hospital settings. The provision of a smoking cessation intervention in all clinical healthcare settings has been strongly recommended by expert international reviews.1 The aim of this review was to determine the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions initiated in the hospital setting, building on an earlier 2007 review.2 A systematic … ER -