Physicians' very brief (30-sec) intervention for smoking cessation on 13 671 smokers in China: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Three to 10 minutes of smoking cessation advice by physicians is effective to increase quit rates, but is not routinely practised. We examined the effectiveness of physicians' very brief (approximately 30 sec) smoking cessation intervention on quit rates among Chinese outpatient smokers.

Design

A pragmatic, open-label, individually randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Seventy-two medical outpatient departments of hospitals and/or community health centers in Guangdong, China.

Participants

Chinese adults who were daily cigarette smokers (n = 13 671, 99% males) were invited by their physician to participate during outpatient consultation. Smokers who were receiving smoking cessation treatment or were judged to need specialist treatment for cess

SUBMITTER: Cheung YTD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8246886 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature