Implementing an Inpatient Smoking Cessation Program serves as a step-by-step manual for implementing a cost-effective tobacco cessation program for hospitalized patients. Based on the Staying Free program, which has evidenced among the highest cessation rates reported in the scientific literature, this book is the result of decades of research by the authors. Although the book reviews a tobacco cessation program, the process is applicable to most behavioral interventions in acute- or long-term care settings.

The book details the administrative responsibilities involved in...

"Implementing an Inpatient Smoking Cessation Program" serves as a step-by-step manual for implementing a cost-effective tobacco cessation program for hospitalized patients. Based on the "Staying Free" program, which has evidenced among the highest cessation rates reported in the scientific literature, this book is the result of decades of research by the authors. Although the book reviews a tobacco cessation program, the process is applicable to most behavioral interventions in acute- or long-term care settings.
The book details the administrative responsibilities involved in designing,...

Many of the greatest strides in medical care have neither been glamorous nor made the front page of The New York Times. They have been simple measures such as sanitation, immunization, and provision of clean, whole- some food. And even more glamorous medical breakthroughs and tech- niques like heart transplants are often last-ditch responses to largely preventable medical problems that required a lifetime to develop. Chang- ing those life styles which may cause, worsen, or exacerbate disease and uti- lizing current medical knowledge may be the most important strides medicine will make in the...

Many of the greatest strides in medical care have neither been glamorous nor made the front page of The New York Times. They have been simple measures such as sanitation, immunization, and provision of clean, whole- some food. And even more glamorous medical breakthroughs and tech- niques like heart transplants are often last-ditch responses to largely preventable medical problems that required a lifetime to develop. Chang- ing those life styles which may cause, worsen, or exacerbate disease and uti- lizing current medical knowledge may be the most important strides medicine will make in the...

Many of the greatest strides in medical care have neither been glamorous nor made the front page of The New York Times. They have been simple measures such as sanitation, immunization, and provision of clean, whole- some food. And even more glamorous medical breakthroughs and tech- niques like heart transplants are often last-ditch responses to largely preventable medical problems that required a lifetime to develop. Chang- ing those life styles which may cause, worsen, or exacerbate disease and uti- lizing current medical knowledge may be the most important strides medicine will make in the...