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Proactive outreach smoking cessation program for Chinese employees in China

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posted on 2017-04-21, 14:47 authored by Man Ping Wang, Yi Nam Suen, William Ho Cheung Li, Oi Sze Lau, Tai Hing Lam, Sophia Siu Chee Chan

We evaluated the first workplace intervention to help smokers quit in Hong Kong. Smoking employees (N = 642) received a 26-page self-help booklet and 15 fix SMS within 3 months and chose to receive cognitive behavioral workshop (N = 76), or face-to-face counseling (N = 11), or group health talk (N = 516), or telephone counseling (N = 39). Twenty participants were interviewed individually for their opinions about the interventions. By intention-to-treat, the overall self-reported past 7-day point prevalence quit rate was 31.0% and 32.9%, and reduction rate was 15.0% and 13.2% at 6 and 12-months, respectively. More than 20% of the unmotivated smokers at baseline (N = 399) quit in this program. Proactive outreach workplace smoking cessation programs with diverse intensity but without medications, chosen by smokers and supported by employers without further incentives, were feasible in busy working environment in Hong Kong.

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This work was supported by the Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon.

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