Smoking Termination Opportunity for inPatients
Summary
The Smoking Termination Opportunity for inPatients, (STOP) project is designed to capture the opportunity that is provided by admission for acute smoking related illness, to assist patients through withdrawal by use of a combination of:
- the new medication Champix with
- best practice counselling
- initiated in an inpatient setting
to achieve:
- sustained smoking abstinence
- reduced hospital bed and health service utilisation
- reduced inpatient smoking and craving prior to discharge
Description
A national standard in public hospitals for the management of smoking in patients admitted with smoking related acute illnesses is lacking. Where such patients have continued to smoke up until the time of admission, it can be assumed that "primary" prevention has failed.
Once admitted, there is a vastly under-utilised opportunity, by use of a structured and systematic approach, to intervene with a secondary prevention attempt. This takes advantage of the synergy of:
1. the smoker is a "captive audience" and may be receptive to considering lifestyle factors that have lead to the admission, and
2. best practice medication and counselling can be initiated prior to discharge. If proven to be cost-effective in our analysis, a systematic roll-out of this secondary prevention initiative would be advocated. ie translation of research into practice.
Study Design
Allocation: Randomized, Control: Active Control, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator), Primary Purpose: Prevention
Conditions
Tobacco Use Disorder
Intervention
Champix, Counselling alone
Location
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Adelaide
South Australia
Australia
5011
Status
Recruiting
Source
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Results (where available)
Links
- Source: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01141855
- Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on July 15, 2010
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Tobacco Use Disorder
Tobacco used to the detriment of a person's health or social functioning. Tobacco dependence is included.
Tobacco Industry
The aggregate business enterprise of agriculture, manufacture, and distribution related to tobacco and tobacco-derived products.
Smoking
Inhaling and exhaling the smoke of tobacco or something similar to tobacco.
Tobacco, Smokeless
The powdered leaves of Nicotiana tabacum which are either inhaled through the nose, chewed, or stored in cheek pouches. It includes any product of tobacco that is not smoked.
Tobacco Use Cessation
Cessation of the habit of using tobacco products for smoking or chewing, including the use of snuff.
Clinical Trials
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Effectiveness of Using Tobacco Free Snuff in Reducing Negative Effects of Smokeless Tobacco Use
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Prevent Exposure to Tobacco Smoke at Home [Gesunde Atemluft zu Hause]
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PubMed Articles
Summary of: Curriculum survey on tobacco education in European dental schools.
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Curriculum survey on tobacco education in European dental schools.
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Trends in the Prevalence of Tobacco Use in the United States, 1991-1992 to 2004-2005.
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