Publikation

[Smoking behaviour and willingness to stop smoking in patients admitted in an internal medicine ward]

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 27.04.2011

Bereiche
PubMed
DOI

Zitation
Miedinger D, Drescher T, Nester N, Zeller A, von Garnier C, Leuppi J. [Smoking behaviour and willingness to stop smoking in patients admitted in an internal medicine ward]. Praxis (Bern 1994) 2011; 100:525-30.
Art
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review (Deutsch)
Zeitschrift
Praxis (Bern 1994) 2011; 100
Veröffentlichungsdatum
27.04.2011
ISSN (Druck)
1661-8157
Seiten
525-30
Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung

Smoking is one of the leading preventable risk factors for the development of lung-, cardio-vascular diseases and cancer. We report results of a prospective survey regarding smoking behaviour and willingness to stop smoking in patients of an internal medicine clinic. Twenty percent of participants admitted smoking cigarettes in the previous 7 days. Smokers were more often males and were younger than non- or ex-smokers. Every second smoker reported being told to stop smoking by a physician before but only about a third was offered active support in doing so. About half of the smoking participants were interested to quit smoking and to participate in a hospital-based smoking cessation program. In patients admitted to the hospital, smoking behaviour and willingness to quit smoking should be recorded and help in quitting smoking should be offered actively. Beside recording smoking behaviour and willingness to quit, patients who are admitted in the hospital should be offered help to quit smoking or to join a proactive structured smoking cessation program.