Improving the continuity of smoking cessation care delivered by quitline services.

Objectives: This study identified smokers' intended use of new quitline features aimed at improving smoking cessation such as having the same quitline advisor for each call, longer-term telephone counselling and provision of additional cessation treatments.

Methods: Smokers who had previously used quitline counselling completed a computer-assisted telephone interview examining intended use of potential quitline enhancements.

Results: The majority of smokers (61.

Predictors of abstinence among smokers recruited actively to quitline support.

Aims: Active recruitment of smokers increases the reach of quitlines; however, some quitlines restrict proactive telephone counselling (i.e. counsellor-initiated calls) to smokers ready to quit within 30 days.

Increasing the reach of quitlines through active telephone recruitment: do cold-called smokers differ from quitline callers?

Introduction: Only 1%-7% of smokers use quitlines annually. Active telephone recruitment ("cold calling") can enroll about 50% of community smokers to quitline services. However, whether cold-called smokers' characteristics differ from traditional quitline clients is unknown.

A randomised controlled trial of proactive telephone counselling on cold-called smokers' cessation rates.

Objectives: Active telephone recruitment ('cold calling') can enroll almost 45 times more smokers to cessation services than media. However, the effectiveness of proactive telephone counselling with cold-called smokers from the broader community is unknown. This study examined whether proactive telephone counselling improved abstinence, quit attempts and reduced cigarette consumption among cold-called smokers.

Active telephone recruitment to quitline services: are nonvolunteer smokers receptive to cessation support?

Introduction: Passive recruitment strategies relying on smoker-initiated contact probably contribute to particular groups of smokers using quitlines. Compared with the smoking population, smokers who call quitlines are more likely to be female, younger, higher educated, more addicted, quit previously, and motivated to quit. Quitlines could adopt new recruitment approaches such as active telephone recruitment involving recruiter-initiated contact, since this may enroll a broader representation of smokers.