The effect of a very brief smoking-reduction intervention in smokers who have no intention to quit: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tobacco use is one of the most common preventable causes of death, but more than half of the Chinese men still use tobacco products. Moreover, 63.6% of Chinese smokers have stated that they would not consider quitting. Specialized and intensive smoking-cessation services are too expensive and passive to have major clinical and public health impacts in developing countries like China. Smoking cessation medications are not covered by medical insurance, and their high price prevents Chinese smokers from using them. Brief interventions are needed to provide cost-effective and timesaving tobacco dependence treatments in China mainland.

Methods/design

We describe a two-arm randomized controlled trial for smokers who have no intention to quit. The project will be conduct

SUBMITTER: Wu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4443634 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature