Linking smokers to a quitline: randomized controlled effectiveness trial of a support person intervention that targets non-smokers.

Evidence-based treatments (e.g. quitlines) are greatly underutilized by smokers limiting their public health impact.

Implementing smoking cessation guidelines for hospitalized Veterans: Cessation results from the VA-BEST trial.

Purpose: To examine the impact of a nurse-initiated tobacco cessation intervention focused on providing guideline-recommended care to hospitalized smokers.

Design: Pre-post quasi-experimental trial.

Setting: General medical units of four US Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals.

Characteristics of American Indian/Alaskan Native Quitline Callers Across 14 States.

Background: American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) have the highest smoking prevalence (29.2%) of any other racial/ethnic group in the United States and lower quit rates. Comprehensive health care services, including commercial tobacco cessation treatments, are difficult to access for many AI/AN individuals due to poverty, the rural distribution of tribal territories, cultural barriers and the lack of funding for these programs.

Quitline Outcomes for Smokers in 6 States: Rates of Successful Quitting Vary by Mental Health Status.

Introduction: Tobacco cessation quitlines are generally effective in assisting smokers who want to quit. However, up to half of quitline callers report a history of mental health conditions and/or recent emotional challenges (MH+), and there has been little study of cessation outcomes for this population. Moreover, evidence suggests that callers who expect their MH+ to interfere with quit attempts have less success with quitting.

Internet and Telephone Treatment for smoking cessation: mediators and moderators of short-term abstinence.

Introduction: This study examined mediators and moderators of short-term treatment effectiveness from the iQUITT Study (Quit Using Internet and Telephone Treatment), a 3-arm randomized trial that compared an interactive smoking cessation Web site with an online social network (enhanced Internet) alone and in conjunction with proactive telephone counseling (enhanced Internet plus phone) to a static Internet comparison condition (basic Internet).

Methods: The analytic sample was N = 1,236 participants with complete 3-month data on all mediating variables. The primary outcome was 30-day point prevalence abstinence (ppa) at 3 months.