The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7339 p263
5 March 2005

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Inpatient quit counselling

Patients who receive smoking cessation counselling while in hospital following a myocardial infarction are less likely to die within the first two months of admission than patients who do not receive counselling, say researchers. The greatest reduction in risk of death was seen within 30 days but the effect was not maintained after one year (American Journal of Medicine 2005;118:269).