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Group therapy helps hospitalized COPD patients quit smoking 

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are more likely to quit smoking if they are offered smoking cessation programs rather than standard anti-smoking information at the same time as receiving hospital treatment, Danish researchers report.

Getting patients to quit is the most important factor in the treatment and rehabilitation of patients, Anders Borglykke (Glostrup University Hospital) and colleagues explain in the Clinical Respiratory Journal. However, the authors note, until now there has been little investigation into the effect of smoking cessation programs in patients hospitalized by COPD.

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