Data collection
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Data collection tools were Persian versions of the smoking status questionnaire, success in quitting smoking and Smoking Abstinence Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (SASEQ). The pre-test was done when the hospitalized patients’ condition was stable after angioplasty. After the intervention was finished, the post-test questionnaires were completed when the patients referred to the outpatient clinic for their scheduled appointment.The smoking status questionnaire was extracted from the smoking questionnaire related to the Multinational Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease (MONICA) project. This questionnaire has 13 questions to examine the smoking condition [To investigate the self-efficacy of people for quitting smoking the SASEQ designed by Spek et al. was used. The questionnaire has six questions and the answers are based on 5-point Likert scale scored from "I surely won't smoke" [To investigate success in quitting cigarette smoking, the self –report 4-weeks quitting (SR4WQ) questionnaire was used [Kazemzadeh et al. confirmed the content validity of Persian versions of three tools by offering them to 10 experts. Additionally, they confirmed the reliability of the smoking status questionnaire by test re-test (r = 0.86), the reliability of SR4WQ by Cronbach’s Alpha of 0.87 [