Revue des maladies respiratoires
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How do residents, specialists or general practitioners advise patients who are smokers when they are admitted to hospital? Do they assess their smoking status? How much do they know about smoking cessation? Do they know the tests essential to allow an effective approach to smokers? ⋯ The approach to the smoking patient varied according to the resident's speciality. Smoking assessment was done systematically by most but did not always lead to an assessment of patients' motivation to stop smoking or to an offer of assistance with quitting. This observation led to the development of a tool to improve the approach to smokers, available within the CHRU intranet covering the principles of the management of the tobacco quitting process; informing, helping to stop feeling guilty, assessing the motivation to quit (Q.MAT), assessing the smoker's addiction (Fagerström test), offering assistance and a list of nicotine substitutes.