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Attitudes to smoking and smoking cessation among nurses

Sreejith Chandrakumar Assistant practitioner, Clifford Medical Assessment Unit, Kettering General Hospital, Kettering, England

John Adams Honorary research associate, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

This article presents a literature review on smoking rates among nurses and the nursing role in promoting smoking cessation worldwide. Findings included wide variations between countries in smoking rates among nurses, and the important influence of peers and family members on smoking behaviours. Several studies indicated that nurses would value more education on techniques to promote smoking cessation.

Nursing Standard. 30, 9, 36-40. doi: 10.7748/ns.30.9.36.s44

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Peer review

All articles are subject to external double-blind peer review and checked for plagiarism using automated software.

Received: 06 January 2015

Accepted: 21 June 2015

Keywords :

health promotion - literature review - smoking - smoking cessation

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28 October 2015 / Vol 30 issue 9

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