A telephone-based smoking cessation intervention for individuals with COVID-19: A randomized controlled feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Increasing evidence suggests that a diagnosis of a respiratory health condition, such as COVID-19, can prompt a smoker to quit, providing an opportunity to promote and support smoking cessation. However, mandatory quarantine, because of a COVID-19 infection, may stimulate an increase in smoking, making such efforts seem inappropriate or ineffective. This study aimed to investigate the feasibility of a telephone-based smoking cessation intervention for smokers with COVID-19 in Malta.

Methods

An experimental design with a mixed-methods approach was adopted. Participants (n=80) were recruited from a COVID-19 testing center and equally randomized to the intervention (advised to quit and offered three or four telephone-based smoking cessation support sessions) and co

SUBMITTER: Grech J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10326861 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature