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    Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  1. Dr P Aveyard, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; p.n.aveyard{at}bham.ac.uk

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Kastelik et al describe an excellent example of a smoking cessation intervention for “hospitalised” patients. The recent Cochrane review of interventions for hospitalised patients reports that intensive counselling interventions that began during the hospital stay and continued with supportive contacts for at least 1 month after discharge increased smoking cessation rates after discharge.1 The odds ratio (OR) was 1.65, 95% confidence …

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