Telephone counseling for tobacco cessation

Interventions with the objective of guiding and facilitating smoking cessation are important strategies, as well as necessary for planning health promotion programs. This article proposes a new approach for smoking cessation: a telephone approach. This study was conducted at the Health Promotion Cen...

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Published in:	Revista gaúcha de enfermagem Vol. 29; no. 4; p. 513
Main Authors:	Chaves, Eliane Corrêa, Oyama, Silvia Maria Ribeiro
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Portuguese
Published:	Brazil 01-12-2008
Subjects:	Adult Brazil Cognitive Therapy - methods Directive Counseling - methods Directive Counseling - organization & administration Female Health Promotion - methods Health Promotion - organization & administration Humans Male Middle Aged Program Evaluation Smoking Cessation - psychology Telephone Tobacco Use Disorder - psychology Tobacco Use Disorder - therapy Brazil
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Summary:	Interventions with the objective of guiding and facilitating smoking cessation are important strategies, as well as necessary for planning health promotion programs. This article proposes a new approach for smoking cessation: a telephone approach. This study was conducted at the Health Promotion Center of the Hospital de Clínicas, School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (HCFMUSP), Brazil. Eighteen patients were called five times receiving counseling and interventions based on the Cognitive Behavioral Theory McNemar and Kappa tests were used for the statistical analysis. According to the results, patients who received five phone calls reduced their cigarette intake and 16.7% of them quit smoking, suggesting that this method can become an alternative in the treatment to quit smoking.
ISSN:	0102-6933