Evaluation of the QUIT hospital-based smoking cessation service: Interim report - covering the setup phase of the evaluation

<p>This is the interim report for the University of Sheffield's evaluation of the QUIT programme of hospital-based stop smoking services.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The evaluation was comissioned by Yorkshire Cancer Research.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The interim report covers the setup phase of the evaluation - in which we developed:</p> <ul> <li>A qualitative description of the new service as it was in the early phases of implementation;</li> <li>A plan for the statistical and health economic analysis of quantitative data from the service.</li> </ul> <p>  </p> <p>Ethical approval was obtained from the Sheffield University School of Health and Related Research Ethics Committee (ref. 037954).</p>