Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
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Multicenter Study
Nicotine dependence, motivation to quit, and diagnosis among adult emergency department patients who smoke: a national survey.
Patients in hospital emergency departments smoke more than the general population. Smoking profiles of these patients have largely been characterized in small, single-institution cohorts. Our objective was to survey adult smokers visiting a sample of U. ⋯ Emergency department patients smoked at moderate amounts, with moderate levels of addiction and interest in quitting. Smokers with tobacco-related diagnoses, or who believed their emergency department visit was related to smoking, were more interested in quitting. These findings suggest that the emergency department visit may provide a teachable moment to reach smokers who have tobacco-related problems.