Background New models of primary care are needed to address funding and staffing
pressures. We addressed the research question “what works for whom in what …

Objective To develop a complex intervention for community pharmacy staff to promote
uptake of smoking cessation services and to increase quit rates. Design Following the …

Objective This study addressed the potential role of pharmacists in helping their patients to
quit smoking by providing a summary of their self-reported levels of current activities …

Objectives To understand views of pharmacy advisers about smoker recruitment and
retention in the National Health Service community pharmacy stop smoking programme …

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a training workshop for community pharmacy personnel to improve
their counselling in smoking cessation based on the stage-of-change model. DESIGN A …

Background Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality.
Implementation of tobacco use cessation interventions however requires strategies that …

Background Although healthcare providers are well placed to help smokers quit,
implementation of smoking cessation care is still suboptimal. The Ask-Advise-Refer tasks …

Healthcare professional intervention has a beneficial impact on smoking cessation, even if
the contact is very brief. Physicians have been the main focus of attempts to promote …

The use of tobacco is known to be one of the most preventable causes of morbidity and
mortality and it has been a challenging concern for health systems. Pharmacological therapy …

Background Numerous explanatory randomized trials support the efficacy of chronic disease
interventions, including smoking cessation treatments. However, there is often inadequate …