How cardiac patients describe the role of their doctors in smoking cessation: a qualitative study.

The article presents a a qualitative study investigating patients' experiences of ongoing smoking or smoking cessation after hospitalisation for an acute coronary syndrome and describes how study participants spoke about the role of their doctors in smoking cessation. It invited individuals who had been admitted to an Australian public hospital in 2005 with a discharge diagnosis of an acute cardiac syndrome and who were smokers at the time of their hospitalisation to participate.