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Acute coronary syndrome

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Smoking

Arrange for telephone-based counselling. a

Why?

  • Patients who received telephone-based counselling compared with standard care were more likely to stop smoking. a
  • However adding telephone counselling to face-to-face counseling or nicotine replacement therapy did not improve quit rates. a
 

Expiry date: June 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Authors   CM   Ball , N   Shenker
Reviewer   I K   Jang
CAT Writers   N   Shenker , CJ   Wotton , CM   Ball , RS   Phillips