The need for smoking cessation counselling and nicotine withdrawal therapy for hospitalised patients: A smoking point prevalence study at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.

The mean (standard deviation (SD)) age of patients in the surgical wards was significantly lower at 46.9 (17.3) years than that in the medical wards (51.1 (17.9) years) (p=0.02). The prevalence of smoking was numerically higher in the surgical compared with the medical wards, including both genders, but this did not reach statistical significance (Table 1) .

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