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The Effect of a No-Smoking Policy on Recruitment and Retention in Outpatient Cocaine Treatment
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The Effect of a No-Smoking Policy on Recruitment and Retention in Outpatient Cocaine Treatment

Robert C. Sterling, Edward Gottheil, Stephen P Weinstein, James W. Kurtz and Hyman Menduke
Journal of addictive diseases, v 13(4), pp 161-168
03 Feb 1995
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1300/J069v13n04_04
PMID: 7734466
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Abstract

Historically, directors of substance abuse treatment programs have been reluctant to adopt a smoke-free policy because of the fear of patient attrition. According to a recent survey, however, a number of program directos now believe that such fears may be unwarranted. The purpose of the present study was to examine the impact on admissions and attendance of adopting a smoke-free policy at a cocaine treatment program offering outpatient group therapy sessions 3 half days a week. Results indicated that the implementation of this policy had no impact on the number of patients who sought treatment at the facility or the number of group sessions patients attended. It was also noteworthy that for a sample of cases active in the month prior to and the month following the ban there was no changes in attendance patterns or in the proportion of patients failing to return from a 10-15 minute therapy break despite the fact that 89% of these patients were cigarette smokers.

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