Abstract
Introduction: Preoperative smoking intervention programmes reduce post‐operative complications in smokers. Little is known about the long‐term effect upon smoking cessation.
Aim: To discover long‐term quit rates and the reasons behind successful cessation.
Materials and Methods: 101 one of 120 smokers, randomised to smoking intervention or no intervention before hip and knee surgery, completed questionnaires concerning smoking after 1 year. We selected representative men and women for focus group interviews.
Results: Significantly more patients from the intervention group abstained from smoking for 1 year post‐operatively [13 in 60 patients (22%) vs 2 in 60 (3%), P < 0.01]. Sex (male), low nicotine dependency, non‐smoking spouse and preoperative smoking intervention were related to smoking cessation. All patients gave the same reasons for smoking cessation: improved health and saving money. Follow‐up for 5 years showed 17% of the controls and 8% in the intervention group (P = 0.42) had died.
Conclusion: The intervention group had a significantly higher quit rate 1 year after a preoperative smoking cessation programme.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 175-182 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Clinical Respiratory Journal |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 Jul 1 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Surgery
- Drug Abuse and Addiction
