Respiratory Medicine
Volume 104, Issue 1 , Pages 61-66 , January 2010

Smoking cessation in patients requiring bronchoscopy: The Bronchoscopy AntiSmoking Study (BASIS)

  • Paola Martucci

      Affiliations

    • UOC Endoscopia Bronchiale e Urgenze Broncologiche, AORN A. Cardarelli, Napoli, Italy
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  • Piersante Sestini

      Affiliations

    • Clinica Malattie dell'Apparato Respiratorio, Università Di Siena, Siena, Italy
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  • Pier Aldo Canessa

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Pneumologia, Ospedale S. Bartolomeo, Sarzana (SP), Italy
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  • Luigi Brancaccio

      Affiliations

    • II UOC Pneumologia Oncologica, AO V. Monaldi, Napoli, Italy
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  • Carmen Guarino

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento Medico Chirurgico di Oncologia e Patologia Toracica, 2^ Università degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
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  • Natalino Barbato

      Affiliations

    • Divisione di Pneumologia, Ospedale G. da Procida, Salerno, Italy
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  • Marco Lodi

      Affiliations

    • UO Malattie dell'Apparato Respiratorio, Ospedale di Copparo (FE), Italy
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  • Isotta Coloretti

      Affiliations

    • UOS di Pneumologia, Ospedale C.Magati AUSL Reggio Emilia, Scandiano (RE), Italy
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  • Mario Del Donno

      Affiliations

    • UOC Pneumologia, AO G Rummo, Benevento, Italy
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  • Albino Sini

      Affiliations

    • UOC Pneumologia, AO S.Filippo Neri, Roma, Italy
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  • Cristina Cinti

      Affiliations

    • UOC Pneumologia, AUSL Bologna, Italy
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  • Andrea S. Melani

      Affiliations

    • Centro Antifumo Fisiopatologia e Riabilitazione Respiratoria, Policlinico Le Scotte, AO Universitaria Senese, Viale Bracci, I-53100 Siena, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39 577 586760; fax: +39 577 586196.
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  • on behalf of the Associazione Italiana Pneumologi Ospedalieri – Educational Group

Received 17 November 2008 ,Accepted 7 August 2009.

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 This setting may be an opportunity to reach smokers at a time when they may be more receptive to advice quitting due to the perceived vulnerability related to a potential smoking related disease.

PII: S0954-6111(09)00257-1

doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2009.08.002

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 104, Issue 1 , Pages 61-66 , January 2010