Feasibility of Patient Navigation-Based Smoking Cessation Program in Cancer Patients.

ABSTRACT: Continued smoking after a cancer diagnosis is causally associated with increased risks of all-cause and cancer-specific mortality, and of smoking-related second primary cancers. Patient navigation provides individualized assistance to address barriers to smoking cessation treatment and represents a promising bridge to smoking cessation in persons with cancer who smoke cigarettes. We conducted a single-arm interventional cohort study of current smokers identified through prospective health record screening and recruited from Penn State Cancer Institute outpatient clinics. Consented participants received two telephone intervention sessions and gain-framed messaging-based smoking cessation educational materials designed for persons with cancer. The primary study outcome was the feasibility of

SUBMITTER: Fan T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8998497 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature