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  • Title: A nurse-managed smoking cessation intervention during diagnostic testing for lung cancer.
    Author: Wewers ME, Jenkins L, Mignery T.
    Journal: Oncol Nurs Forum; 1997 Sep; 24(8):1419-22. PubMed ID: 9380597.
    Abstract:
    PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To determine the effectiveness of a nurse-managed smoking cessation intervention. DESIGN: Prospective, descriptive, one-group, pretest/post-test. SETTING: Urban, academic, tertiary-care setting. SAMPLE: Fifteen adult male and female smokers with a suspected diagnosis of lung cancer who were admitted to an inpatient thoracic surgery unit for diagnostic testing. METHODS: Subjects received a nurse-managed smoking cessation intervention during hospitalization with subsequent verification of smoking status at a clinic visit six weeks postintervention. MAIN RESEARCH VARIABLES: Self-reported smoking status and saliva cotinine levels at six weeks postintervention. FINDINGS: Eighty-seven percent of subjects reported an intent to quit smoking within the month. At six weeks postintervention, 93% of the subjects reported at least one cessation attempt, and 40% were confirmed, via saliva cotinine analysis, as abstinent from smoking during the prior week. CONCLUSIONS: A nurse-managed smoking cessation intervention was successful in achieving short-term cessation. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE: Hospitalization for diagnostic testing associated with lung cancer may represent an opportunity for nurses to deliver a smoking-cessation intervention.
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