CHAMPLAIN HOSPITAL-BASED SMOKING CESSATION NETWORK


 

Overview

This initiative is creating a network of hospital-based smoking cessation programs in the Champlain District to help hospitalized smokers quit smoking and stay smoke-free. Ultimately, the Champlain Hospital-based Smoking Cessation Network will create an infrastructure to identify and offer treatment to every hospitalized smoker in the Champlain District using best practice guidelines.

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Working with Hospitals to Help Patients Quit Smoking

Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death and disability in the Champlain LHIN.  Approximately 180,000 people smoke in the Champlain LHIN. 

Twenty-two percent of all patients admitted to Champlain hospitals are smokers and most are likely to continue smoking after they leave hospital without intervention.  Hospitals provide an opportunity to identify and intervene with a large number of smokers at a time when their motivation to quit is high.

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Network of Champlain Hospitals

The Champlain Network of Hospital-based Smoking Cessation Programs has transformed the way in which smoking is addressed in hospitals across the Champlain LHIN.  Seventeen hospitals in the Champlain LHIN are now implementing the Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation.

 

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The Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation

The Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation (OMSC) is a systematic approach for addressing smoking among hospitalized patients.  The model involves a common approach to identifying smokers upon admission to hospital, providing them with assistance in quitting and support for nicotine withdrawal while in hospital, and ensuring follow up counselling once they leave hospital to assist them in remaining smoke-free. 

The OMSC has been identified as one of Ontario’s best practices in Chronic Disease Prevention and is expanding both provincially and nationally.  For more information about the Ottawa Model, visit www.ottawamodel.ca.

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This Champlain Hospital-based Smoking Cessation Initiative is supported by the Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy of the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion.