A general health promotion approach to helping smokers with non-communicable diseases quit smoking: A pilot randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite evidence showing that continued smoking in patients with non-communicable diseases can reduce treatment efficacy and increase the risk of disease progression and multimorbidity, many smoker patients either have no intention to quit or have had failed attempts at quitting.

Objective

To examine the feasibility of a general health promotion approach that uses instant messaging to deliver brief motivational interviewing to help smokers with non-communicable diseases quit smoking.

Methods

In total, 60 participants who had medical follow-up in a special out-patient clinic were randomized into two groups, 30 in the intervention group received brief motivational interviewing to assist them with their chosen behavioral changes, and 30 in the control group re

SUBMITTER: Li WHC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9623171 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature