Smoking among emergency chest pain patients: motivation to quit, risk perception and physician intervention.

摘要: The feasibility of the emergency department (ED) as a setting for smoking interventions was examined among 159 adult patients presenting with chest pain (38% were smokers). Subjects had been admitted to 24-h observation unit (OU) rule out myocardial infarction. We frequency and extent physician using AHCPR guidelines model. also assessed patients' perceptions risk from motivation quit. Results indicate that ED physicians provided incomplete inconsistent intervention. While most asked if they smoked, only half advised quit, few offered assistance quitting. Perceived low almost all smokers. However, over three-quarters willing receive cessation counseling while in ED. may be an opportune which initiate certain high-risk populations.