Dissemination of Tobacco Tactics for Hospitalized Smokers

"At the intervention sites the research nurse will teach the Tobacco Tactics Intervention to nurses. For nurses, the Cessation Toolkit includes: 1) 1 CEU contact hour for training; 2) PowerPoint presentation on behavioral and pharmaceutical interventions; 3) pocket card Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Clinicians developed by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service; 4) behavioral and pharmaceutical protocols; and 5) computerized template for nurse documentation. For patients, the Cessation Toolkit includes: 1) brochure; 2) videotape; 3); and 4) pharmaceuticals."

The comparison group will receive usual care in accordance to how the hospital responds to current Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization's (JC) standards. JC standards require that a patient with a smoking history receives at least one of the following: advice to stop smoking, brochures or handouts on smoking cessation, a smoking cessation aid such as nicotine patch, gum, nasal spray, inhaler, lozenge, or bupropion SR, viewed a smoking cessation video.