What strategies are used in the Emergency Department to help smokers quit?
Various strategies are used in the Emergency Department to help smokers quit. These include offering smoking cessation counseling, providing nicotine replacement therapy, and providing referrals to smoking cessation programs. Examples of such strategies can be found in studies such as Bernstein et al. (2006), Katz et al. (2012), and Bernstein et al. (2011). Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provide annual data on smoking-attributable mortality, years of potential life lost, and economic costs in the United States from 1995-1999 (CDC, 2002). 