Determinants of motivation to quit in smokers screened for the early detection of lung cancer: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The promotion of smoking cessation within lung cancer screening could lead to benefits for smoking-related disease and improve cost-effectiveness of screening. Little is known about how smokers respond to lung cancer screening and how this impacts smoking behaviour. We aimed to understand how lung cancer screening influences individual motivations about smoking, including in those who have stopped smoking since screening.

Methods

Thirty one long-term smokers aged 51-74 took part in semi-structured interviews about smoking. They had been screened with the EarlyCDT-Lung Test (13 positive result; 18 negative) as part of the Early Cancer Detection Test Lung Cancer Scotland Study. They were purposively sampled for interview based on their self-reported post-screening s

SUBMITTER: Young B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6245764 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature