| Methods |
Country: Norway
Recruitment/setting: Inpatients admitted to cardiac ward of 1 general hospital, invited to participate |
| Participants |
240 current smokers (smoked daily before symptoms began)
Av. 15 cpd
Intervention delivered by 3 cardiac nurses |
| Interventions |
1. Intervention: Usual care plus 1 ‐ 2 sessions with nurse using booklet focusing on fear arousal and relapse prevention. 5 telephone follow‐ups at 2, 7, 21 days, 3 m, 5 m). Clinic visit to nurse at 6 wks Gum or patch encouraged for participants with strong urges to smoke in hospital
2. Control: usual care (advice to quit + booklet)
Intensity: High |
| Outcomes |
PP abstinence at 12m
Validation: urine cotinine < 2.0 mmol/mol creatinine |
| Notes |
New for 2008/1 update.
Included in CVD subcategory |
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Low risk |
"Randomization was in blocks of varying sizes." |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Low risk |
"The nurses were given a serially numbered sealed envelope from a secretary who was otherwise uninvolved in the study." |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Low risk |
MA does not include 5 deaths, 2 participants who had moved away and 10 post‐randomization withdrawals due to change in diagnosis; all other losses to follow‐up considered to be smoking (18 in intervention group, 4 in control group) |
