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 …

BACKGROUND: Smoking cessation clinical practice guidelines are based on randomised
clinical trials reporting outcomes in persons who participate in these studies. However, many …

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 …

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 …

Background. Although most physicians believe that smoking cessation assistance is
important for their patients, the majority of smokers report that they have not received …

Background. Lack of interest has been cited as a reason not to offer cessation assistance to
smokers, but research suggests that smokers accept treatments offered proactively. This …

Background. Recruiting smokers to smoking cessation trials is challenging and participation
rates are often low. Consequently, the interventions evaluated may fail to reach a broad …

Background. While health care providers are often urged to refer smokers to a smoking
cessation pro gram, little information is available about patient ad herence to such advice …

Objectives There remains a need to identify effective smoking cessation interventions in
severely disadvantaged populations. This trial aimed to examine the effectiveness of an …

Introduction Many hospitals advise their smoking patients to contact a community-based
stop smoking service. We investigated how well smokers attend a community-based service …