NCT03603496.

Trial name or title	Post‐discharge smoking cessation strategies: helping HAND 4
Methods	Study design: randomised controlled trial Setting: three hospitals in USA Recruitment: not specified in the trials registry
Participants	1350 participants
Interventions	Pharmacotherapy: eight weeks of nicotine replacement therapy 1. Electronic referral to State tobacco quitline 2. Personalised tobacco care management: seven proactive contacts over three months delivered by automated interactive voice response phone calls, text messaging and/or email + offer of a return call from the hospital‐based tobacco coach who offer counselling, medication advice and coordination of care with the patient’s outpatient health care team
Outcomes	Abstinence at 6 months after hospital discharge Validation: not specified in the trials registry
Starting date	August 2018
Contact information	Nancy Rigotti, Massachusetts General Hospital
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