Our findings demonstrate a doubling of validated cessation rates at four weeks after discharge and highly significant improvements in service uptake when evidence based smoking interventions 4 are delivered by default to all smokers by specialist staff.
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Systematic identification and treatment of smokers by hospital based cessation practitioners in a secondary care setting: cluster randomised controlled trial.
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Sensitivity analysis The intervention group’s doubled rate of validated cessation at four weeks after discharge was of borderline significance.