Zeitschrift für Krankenpflege und Pflege

Smoking Cessation Communication and Education

Abstract

Timothy Williams

The increased need for more smoking cessation education at a local hospital in Oklahoma has been expressed by many of the staff. The nursing staff feels both unprepared and poorly educated on the appropriate interventions and education that leads to smoking cessation in their patients according to a recent online suggestion. Smoking cessation to patients can be crucial to recovery and long term goals and outcomes for patients and their success. Education that leads to smoking cessation, reduces mortality rates for the surgical patients more than any other treatment or method used.