Combining Default Choices and an Encounter Decision Aid to Improve Tobacco Cessation in Primary Care Patients: A Pragmatic, Cluster-Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary care providers (PCPs) prescribe less often treatments for smoking cessation than for other major risk factors. We assessed the effect of training PCPs to offer smoking cessation treatments to current smokers as the default choice using an encounter decision aid (DA) on smoking cessation.

Methods

Pragmatic, cluster-randomized controlled trial with PCPs in private practice in Switzerland and France. The intervention was a half-day course teaching PCPs the default choice approach using a DA. Control PCPs received a 1-h refresher training on smoking cessation aids. PCPs recruited daily smokers seen for routine care. The primary outcome was self-reported, 7-day, point prevalence smoking abstinence at 6 months. Secondary outcomes were quit attempts and use of sm

SUBMITTER: Selby K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12508413 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature