Narratives to enhance smoking cessation interventions among African-American smokers, the ACCE project.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low-income, African-American smokers are less likely to have resources to aid in quitting smoking. Narrative communication may provide an enhancement to traditional smoking cessation interventions like NRT, medications, or behavioral treatments for this audience. After extensive pilot testing of stories and personal experiences with smoking cessation from African-Americans from a low-income community, we conducted a randomized control trial using stories to augment routine inpatient treatment among African-Americans at an urban Southern hospital (N = 300).

Results

Differences in smoking cessation outcomes between the intervention (stories DVD + routine clinical treatment) and control (routine clinical treatment) arms were compared using self-report and carbon mono

SUBMITTER: Cherrington A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4606962 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature