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Volume 4, Number 31 - January 10, 2003
Intervention Helps Sick Kids' Parents Stop Smoking

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   During a four-month study, researchers helped many parents quit smoking after their children were hospitalized for respiratory illnesses.

   The researchers, at Massachusetts General Hospital, used motivational interviews, written materials, nicotine replacement therapy, phone counseling and referral to primary care physicians as tools to encourage the parents of sick kids to quit.

   Of the smoking parents in the study, 80 percent completed all counseling sessions. After two months, half of the participants had stopped smoking for at least 24 hours and one-fifth were able to quit for the duration of the study.

   There was no control group, but more smokers in the study appeared to quit than the yearly 2-to-3 percent of U.S. smokers who quit.

   "Until now, pediatricians have been afraid to address smoking when parents are stressed about their child being sick," said lead study author Jonathan Winickoff. "But the results show that parents are very receptive to the intervention."
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