Effect of nurse-based brief intervention for tobacco cessation among admitted cardiac patients in a tertiary care hospital of Dhaka City, Bangladesh

Background and challenges to implementation Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS), Bangladesh 2009 shows that 44.7% of men and 1.5% of women smoke, while 26.4% of men and 27.9% of women use smokeless tobacco. Only about 50% of smokers who visited physicians for consultation had advice for tobacco cess...

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Main Authors: Sohel Choudhury, Shamim Jubayer, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Fazilatunnesa Malik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Publishing 2018-03-01
Series:Tobacco Induced Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.journalssystem.com/tid/Effect-of-nurse-based-brief-intervention-for-tobacco-cessation-among-admitted-cardiac,84043,0,2.html