title: A nurse-managed smoking cessation intervention during diagnostic testing for lung cancer.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the effectiveness of a nurse-managed smoking cessation intervention.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective, descriptive, one-group, pretest/post-test.
  
  
  METHODS
  Urban, academic, tertiary-care setting.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifteen adult male and female smokers with a suspected diagnosis of lung cancer who were admitted to an inpatient thoracic surgery unit for diagnostic testing.
  
  
  METHODS
  Subjects received a nurse-managed smoking cessation intervention during hospitalization with subsequent verification of smoking status at a clinic visit six weeks postintervention.
  
  
  METHODS
  Self-reported smoking status and saliva cotinine levels at six weeks postintervention.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Eighty-seven percent of subjects reported an intent to quit smoking within the month. At six weeks postintervention, 93% of the subjects reported at least one cessation attempt, and 40% were confirmed, via saliva cotinine analysis, as abstinent from smoking during the prior week.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A nurse-managed smoking cessation intervention was successful in achieving short-term cessation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Hospitalization for diagnostic testing associated with lung cancer may represent an opportunity for nurses to deliver a smoking-cessation intervention.
authors.affiliation: Ohio State University College of Nursing, Columbus, USA.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Wewers
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jenkins
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mignery
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*