title: Evaluation of an intervention for hospitalized African American smokers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the effectiveness of a smoking cessation intervention based on the transtheoretical model of change with a sample of low-income African American smokers admitted to an indigent-care hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  The intervention incorporated components shown to be effective in increasing cessation in other populations, tailored to a bedside counseling format with follow-up contact postdischarge.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Intervention patients were significantly more likely to advance in stage than were control patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A hospital-offered bedside intervention offers promise in reaching underserved smokers with effective, though limited, cessation assistance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Behavior, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294-0022, USA. sdavies@uab.edu
authors.forename: Susan L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: Connie L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Kohler
authors.forename: Larry
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fish
authors.forename: Bruce E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Glennis Elmore
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Foster
authors.forename: Lucy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Annang
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D000407:Alabama; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011203:Poverty; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*