[Effectiveness of telephone aftercare following a smoking cessation program for women on inpatient rehabilitation].
OBJECTIVE
Rehabilitation centres for mothers are a suitable setting to offer smoking cessation treatment to these women. Telephone aftercare could enhance the effectiveness of an inpatient smoking cessation program. We investigated whether non-directive, supportive aftercare or a structured, smoking specific counselling give more benefit.


METHODS
527 smoking mothers participated in a smoking cessation program during their stay in a prevention/rehabilitation centre. Afterwards they were randomly assigned to one of three aftercare conditions: no aftercare (control group), structured telephone aftercare or non-directive telephone aftercare. At the end of the inpatient program and 6 months later the smoking status of the participants was assessed.


RESULTS
The structured telephone aftercare resulted in the highest abstinence rates after 6 months (31.5%; odds ratio 2.0; confidence interval: 1.1 - 3.8). The non-directive telephone counselling had no significant effect on abstinence rates.


CONCLUSIONS
A structured telephone aftercare proves to be an effective intervention for women, which stabilizes the abstinence rate following a clinic based smoking cessation program.
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IFT Institut für Therapieforschung, München. floeter@ift.de
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D000328:Adult; D000359:Aftercare / Q000379:methods*; D000465:Algorithms; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology; D011584:Psychology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D012944:Social Support; D013689:Telephone; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000534:rehabilitation*