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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Cardiovascular Psychiatry and Neurology Volume 2012, Article ID 970108, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/970108 Research Article Smoking Cessation Intervention in a Cardiovascular Hospital Based Clinical Setting Zainab Samaan,1, 2, 3, 4 Barb Nowacki,5 Karleen Schulze,5, 6 Patrick Magloire,7 and Sonia S. Anand2, 5, 6, 7 1 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L8 2 Population Genomics Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1 3 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1 4 Mood Disorders Program, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, 100 West 5th Street, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 3K7 5 Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8L 2X2 6 Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8L 2X2 7 Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L8 Correspondence should be addressed to Zainab Samaan, samaanz@mcmaster.ca Received 29 May 2012; Accepted 14 September 2012 Academic Editor: Heimo Viinamaki Copyright © 2012 Zainab Samaan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction. Smoking is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally and it is a significant modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and other chronic diseases. Efforts to encourage and support smokers to quit are critical to prevent premature smoking-associated morbidity and mortality. Hospital settings are seldom equipped to help patients to quit smok