Integrating smoking cessation support during lung cancer diagnostic workup: a pragmatic, multicenter, cluster-randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smoking cessation at or around the time of lung cancer diagnosis is associated with improved treatment outcomes, enhanced quality of life and increased survival. However, many patients continue smoking post-diagnosis.

Aim

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a national initiative in Denmark that integrated smoking cessation support into the diagnostic workup for lung cancer within a pragmatic, multicenter, cluster-randomised controlled trial.

Methods

Nine Danish hospitals were cluster-randomised to either the intervention group (integrated cessation support) or the control group (usual care). The intervention was implemented in five hospitals. Eighty-six patients (intervention = 39; control = 47) who were active smokers at referral completed questionna

SUBMITTER: Farver-Vestergaard I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12722788 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature