Skill Sets for Family Members and Friends to Help Motivate a Smoker to Seek Treatment: Research to Practice.

ABSTRACT: Translation of effective behavioral interventions is a key challenge for the addictions treatment field. With the goal of disseminating an effective behavioral intervention to practice, this narrative study describes tobacco cessation coaches' skills sets and provides an illustrative case study of a 1-session phone intervention between a coach and a concerned family member who wants to help their smoker quit. Delivered through a quitline by quitline coaches, the intervention consisted of a 15-30 minute phone session and written materials. The goal of the intervention was for family members and friends (support persons) to encourage their smoker to use a quitline. Data were collected from transcripts of 193 audiotapes of the one session phone intervention from a previous trial (Patten et al

SUBMITTER: Brockman TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6884141 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature