title: Nursing Outcomes for the Evaluation of Patients During Smoking Cessation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To select outcomes of the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) and develop operational definitions for their indicators in order to evaluate patients during smoking cessation.
  
  
  METHODS
  A consensus study among experts, involving eight nurses. A 100% consensus was required to select the outcomes. Operational definitions were developed based on the literature.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two outcomes were selected, Smoking Cessation Behavior (1625)-with nine indicators, and Substance Withdrawal Severity (2108)-with 11 indicators, for which we developed operational definitions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Consensus allowed the selection of NOC outcomes and indicators, which will allow us to evaluate patients during smoking cessation using a standardized classification.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A standardized classification provides a more qualified evaluation of patients during smoking cessation.
authors.affiliation: Vanessa Monteiro Mantovani, RN, MSc, is a Nurse at Hospital São Lucas, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and member of the Nursing Research Group on the Care of Adults and the Elderly (GEPECADI-CNPq).
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Monteiro Mantovani
authors.affiliation: Alba Luz Rodríguez Acelas, RN, MSc, is a PhD student at the Graduate School of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and member of the GEPECADI-CNPq.
authors.forename: Alba Luz
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Acelas
authors.affiliation: Amália de Fátima Lucena, RN, PhD, an Associate Professor at the Nursing School, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and Researcher of the GEPECADI-CNPq.
authors.forename: Amália de Fátima
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Lucena
authors.affiliation: Miriam de Abreu Almeida, RN, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Nursing School, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and Researcher of the GEPECADI-CNPq.
authors.forename: Miriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Abreu Almeida
authors.affiliation: Elizeth Paz da Silva Heldt, RN, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Nursing School, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
authors.forename: Elizeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Paz da Silva Heldt
authors.affiliation: Solange Klockner Boaz, RN, is a Nurse at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
authors.forename: Solange
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Klockner Boaz
authors.affiliation: Isabel Cristina Echer, RN, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and Researcher of the GEPECADI-CNPq.
authors.forename: Isabel Cristina
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Echer
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D013375:Substance Withdrawal Syndrome
keywords: Cessation of tobacco use; consensus study; nursing outcomes