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| The Heart Center at St. Rita's |
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Everyone knows that kicking the smoking habit is difficult. Now, St. Rita's
Medical Center offers a comprehensive program to help motivate smokers to kick
the habit. This new smoking cessation program will target hospitalized patients
who smoke and have a diagnosis of congestive heart failure (CHF), myocardial
infarction (MI) or pneumonia. Through collaborative efforts from St. Rita's
Respiratory and Pharmacy departments, patients will learn to quit their tobacco
dependence through counseling, aimed at behavior modification, and nicotine
replacement therapy. This is a voluntary program. Though all hospitalized patients
who smoke will receive information about the dangers of smoking, only those
patients willing to quit and desiring to participate will be enrolled in the
program.
Mary Reed, Director of The Heart Center at St. Rita's, reports, "Similar programs
at other institutions have had very significant success rates--as high as 86%."
The program's components of counseling plus nicotine replacement therapy, combined
with a patient's motivation to make a lifestyle change help make the program
successful reports Reed.
For more information about the Smoking Cessation Program,
click here.
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For More Information
(419) 226-5069
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