Published in:
01-03-2019 | Concise Research Report
Hospitalists’ Role in Improving Prescriptions of Nicotine Replacement Therapy Among Tobacco Users During Hospitalization and at Discharge
Authors:
Kristian Feterik, MD, MBA, Thomas Ylioja, MSW, Anna E. Schulze, MSW, Antoine Douaihy, MD, Kaleab Z. Abebe, PhD, Esa M. Davis, MD, MPH
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 3/2019
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Excerpt
Hospitals that have a tobacco-free environment require patients to abstain from smoking.
1 Tobacco users generally experience withdrawal within 2–3 h of their last cigarette, with cravings becoming most severe within 2–3 days.
2 Thus, identifying, preventing, and treating withdrawal symptoms is important to promote recovery during hospitalization.
3 While a tobacco treatment service (TTS) improves inpatient counseling, hospitalists have an important role in treating tobacco withdrawal symptoms and smoking cessation counseling. Our objective was to compare the effect of tobacco cessation counseling by provider type on the inpatient rate of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) orders and patient use. …
