TY - JOUR T1 - The impact of a smoking cessation programme on referrals in a cardiorespiratory admissions unit JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 113 LP - 113 DO - 10.7861/fhj.9-2-s113 VL - 9 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Syed Akbar AU - Kartik Kavi AU - Rabia Azam AU - Maheen Parvez AU - Hafza Zafar AU - Okpii Kingsley AU - Elizabeth Clark AU - Sanjay Agrawal AU - Gerrit Woltmann AU - Daniela Cristea-Nicoara Y1 - 2022/07/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/Suppl_2/113.abstract N2 - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends that all patients above 12 years of age who smoke should receive smoking cessation advice and interventions.1 Our aim is to improve the number of assessments to ensure that the majority of the smokers presenting to the clinical decision unit (CDU), which is a cardiorespiratory admissions unit, have been offered smoking cessation advice and referral to stop smoking services.We retrospectively collected data for patients admitted in December 2020 in the first cycle and for patients admitted in July 2021 in the second cycle. … ER -