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Myocardial infarction

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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: November 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball , N   Shenker
Reviewer   S   Straus
CAT Writers   CJ   Wotton , N   Shenker , B   Phillips , CM   Ball