nursing intervention following attendance at a brief educational program could have a profound impact on helping smokers quit. For example, the over 10% improvement in nurses consistently referring patients to the telephone quitline for cessation support could result in 10 additional smokers out of 100 receiving treatment. In this study, the cost of the educational program was relatively low, but depended on the support of the hospital administration to release time for the nurses. With rapidly advancing technology, web-based programs focused on smoking cessation may provide nurses easier access to educational programs. A quasi-experimental