Ian Pope, Lucy V Clark, Allan Clark, Emma Ward, Pippa Belderson, Susan Stirling, Steve Parrott, Jinshuo Li, Tim Coats, Linda Bauld, Richard Holland, Sarah Gentry, Sanjay Agrawal, Benjamin Michael Bloom, Adrian A Boyle, Alasdair J Gray, M Geraint Morris, Jonathan Livingstone-Banks, Caitlin Notley
BACKGROUND: Supporting people to quit smoking is one of the most powerful interventions to improve health. The Emergency Department (ED) represents a potentially valuable opportunity to deliver a smoking cessation intervention if it is sufficiently resourced. The objective of this trial was to determine whether an opportunistic ED-based smoking cessation intervention can help people to quit smoking. METHODS: In this multicentre, parallel-group, randomised controlled superiority trial conducted between January and August 2022, adults who smoked daily and attended one of six UK EDs were randomised to intervention (brief advice, e-cigarette starter kit and referral to stop smoking services) or control (written information on stop smoking services)...
March 26, 2024: Emergency Medicine Journal: EMJ