Barriers and Facilitators to Engaging in Smoking Cessation Support Among Lung Screening Participants.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Embedded smoking cessation support within lung cancer screening is recommended in the United Kingdom; however, little is known about why individuals decline smoking cessation support in this setting. This study identified psychosocial factors that influence smoking cessation and quit motivation among those who declined support for quitting smoking alongside lung cancer screening.

Aims and methods

Qualitative interviews were conducted between August 2019 and April 2021 with 30 adults with a smoking history, recruited from the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial. Participants had declined smoking cessation support. Verbatim interview transcripts were thematically analyzed.

Results

Fifty percent of participants were male and the majority were from the most depriv

SUBMITTER: Smith P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11190054 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature