The Smoking Termination Opportunity for inPatients, (STOP) project is designed to capture the
opportunity that is provided by admission for acute smoking related illness, to assist
patients through withdrawal by use of a combination of:
- the new medication Champix with
- best practice counselling
- initiated in an inpatient setting
to achieve:
- sustained smoking abstinence
- reduced hospital bed and health service utilisation
- reduced inpatient smoking and craving prior to discharge