Effectiveness of mobile smoking cessation treatment with 1-week nicotine replacement therapy sampling at outdoor smoking hotspots: A cluster randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To evaluate the effectiveness of mobile smoking cessation (SC) treatment with 1-week nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) sampling on recruitment and quitting outcomes.

Design

Two-arm cluster RCT (1:1 ratio), single-blinded, at 244 recruitment sessions in Hong Kong outdoor smoking hotspots from October 2018-December 2019.

Setting

Participant were recruited by ambassadors and treated at the mobile SC truck.

Participants

834 adult (≥18 years, male 81.3%) daily smokers, Chinese-speaking, non-NRT users in the past month, consented after nurse-led intervention in mobile SC truck were randomized to the experimental (n = 482 male 79.5%) and the control group (n = 352, male 83.8%).

Intervention and comparator

The experimental group received a 1-week free NRT

SUBMITTER: He WJA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11638493 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature