Clinician-delivered Intervention to Facilitate Tobacco Quitline Use by Surgical Patients

• Published in: Anesthesiology (Philadelphia) Vol. 114; no. 4; pp. 847 - 855
• Main Authors: Warner, David O., Klesges, Robert C., Dale, Lowell C., Offord, Kenneth P., Schroeder, Darrell R., Shi, Yu, Vickers, Kristin S., Danielson, David R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hagerstown, MD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 01.04.2011
• Subjects: Adult; Anesthesia; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Elective Surgical Procedures; Female; Hotlines - utilization; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Patient Acceptance of Health Care - statistics & numerical data; Physician-Patient Relations; Preoperative Care; Program Development; Program Evaluation; Smoking Cessation - methods; Human; Anesthesia; Tobacco smoking
• ISSN: 0003-3022; 1528-1175; 1528-1175
• DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31820d868d

Telephone quitlines that provide counseling support are efficacious in helping cigarette smokers quit and have been widely disseminated; currently, they are underused. Surgery represents a teachable moment for smoking cessation, which can benefit surgical outcomes; however, few surgical patients rec...