Smoking Termination Opportunity for inPatients

Summary

The Smoking Termination Opportunity for inPatients, (STOP) project is designed to capture the opportunity that is provided by admission for acute smoking related illness, to assist patients through withdrawal by use of a combination of: * the new medication Champix with * best practice counselling * initiated in an inpatient setting to achieve: * sustained smoking abstinence * reduced hospital bed and health service utilisation * reduced inpatient smoking and craving prior to discharge

Timeline

Start

2008-05

Primary completion

2011-12

Completion

2011-12

Publications

• Smith BJ, Carson KV, Brinn MP, Labiszewski NA, Peters MJ, Fitridge R, Koblar SA, Jannes J, Veale AJ, Goldsworthy SJ, Litt J, Edwards D, Esterman AJ. Smoking Termination Opportunity for inPatients (STOP): superiority of a course of varenicline tartrate plus counselling over counselling alone for smoking cessation: a 12-month randomised controlled trial for inpatients. Thorax. 2013 May;68(5):485-6. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-202484. Epub 2012 Sep 19.

Drugs

Indications