Evidence brief : Expanding the uptake of hospital-based tobacco-use cessation supports across Ontario

The views expressed in the evidence brief are the views of the authors and should not be taken to represent the views of the ministry or university. [...] Features of the six initiatives are described in Table 1, and the findings from assessments of these initiatives (much of which come from the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit 2011 survey) are described in Table 2.(30) Descriptions of the first four of the six initiatives were based on information that could be obtained from publicly available documents whereas descriptions of the fifth and sixth prog [...] The U. S. Department of Health and Human Service guidelines recommend the use of medication (as well as counselling) as tobacco-dependence treatments.(18) A central component of the Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation is the appropriate use of pharmacotherapy to assist with cessation and to manage withdrawal symptoms in hospitalized patients.(41) Yet there is a lack of funding for nicotine-replacem [...] Success on this front has been the expanded uptake of the Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation in the 22 hospital sites within the remit of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network, and the incorporation of this activity as part of the hospitals’ accountability agreement.(29) The North West Ontario Local Health Integration Network has also been successful in implementing smoking-cessation guid [...] Components of this element include: • selecting the types of assistance provided (e.g., balance of counselling and pharmacotherapy) and the ‘dose’ of assistance (e.g., intensity of counselling); • selecting options for the process (i.e., who does what and in what order?); • providing additional training, certification and/or oversight of those providing the function in hospital; • developing or ad