Table 5.
Smoking and Cardiac Rehabilitation
| Do you think your smoking behavior influenced your decision to attend/not attend cardiac rehab? | (n = 62) |
|---|---|
| Yes | 3 (5%) |
| It’s related to the fact that I have to do this and CR makes me feel better. I feel better because of the exercise and I don’t feel better when I smoke. CR makes me more likely to stay away from smoking. | |
| By attending rehab I have the help I need if the sensation to smoke presents itself. Plus the patches have helped me too. | |
| Yes, I quit smoking so I attended CR | 5 (8%) |
| I quit smoking because of my heart attack but if I didn’t quit I would have been less likely to go to CR. | |
| Due to quitting smoking, I was really interested on seeing how different my breathing would be. And upon doing rehabilitation, I was quite happy with the outcome… | |
| I quit before I went | |
| Yes, I attended CR (or wanted to) so I could receive help to quit smoking | 5 (8%) |
| I feel if I exercise regularly that I won’t have the urge to smoke. I will not live that life again. | |
| Attended CR to gain strength and to help quit forever. | |
| Yes, it had a lot to do with it. If I attended I bet I would have stopped smoking because I was told they would help me. | |
| No, there was not influence at all | 24 (39%) |
| No, I would have gone even if I was still smoking. | |
| Didn’t influence one way or the other. I knew it was the right thing to do. | |
| No, I attended for another reason | 8 (13%) |
| No, my doctor told me I had to go to get strong again so I’m going. | |
| No, I want to go so I can live a few more years. | |
| No, I needed to go so my heart could get stronger. | |
| No, I could not attend for another reason | 7 (11%) |
| It’s more my work schedule that effects my ability to go. I’m really disappointed in my smoking – maybe CR would help because they’ll be bugging me 3 days week. | |
| It wasn’t a factor. I couldn’t go to CR either way. | |
| Other | 8 (13%) |
| I don’t know if it did but I think I probably would have been less likely to go had I not quit smoking. | |
| I need to quit. If I don’t then my health will decline. Either way I want to eventually go to CR. Maybe it will help me. | |
| No response | 2 (3%) |
CR= cardiac rehabilitation