Importance Most smoking cessation (SC) clinics are costly, passive, and underused.
Objective To compare the SC effect of a combined intervention involving brief, model-guided …

Importance Widening socioeconomic disparities in mortality in the United States are largely
explained by slower declines in tobacco use among smokers of low socioeconomic status …

Background Many smokers do not use existing free or low-cost smoking cessation services,
cost-effective interventions to increase use are needed. Methods We did a 2-armed cluster …

Aims To establish whether proactively identifying all smokers in primary care populations
and offering smoking cessation support is effective in increasing long‐term abstinence from …

Importance Current tobacco use treatment approaches require smokers to request treatment
or depend on the provider to initiate smoking cessation care and are therefore reactive. Most …

Background and aims Proactive brief cessation advice by a lay counsellor combined with a
referral to a smoking cessation service (active referral) is effective in increasing service use …

Background Current guidelines advise providers to assess smokers' readiness to quit, then
offer cessation therapies to smokers planning to quit and motivational interventions to …

Introduction Population-based smoking-cessation services tend to preferentially benefit high-
SES smokers, potentially exacerbating disparities. Interventions that include proactive …

Background Helping tobacco smokers to quit during a medical visit is a clinical and public
health priority. Research suggests that most health professionals engage their patients in at …

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 …