Effects of Trained Health Professionals' Behavioral Counseling Skills on Smoking Cessation Outcomes.

Background: There is evidence that training health professionals in behavioral counseling skills can lead to greater success in helping their smokers to quit. However, it is still unknown how counseling skills relate to counseling effects.

Purpose: We established a method of skills evaluation of health professionals for smoking cessation counseling based on videotaped counseling sessions with a standardized smoker, and examined the relationship between skill levels and smoking cessation outcomes.

Smoking cessation patterns and predictors of quitting smoking among the Japanese general population: a 1-year follow-up study.

Aim: To examine the percentage of Japanese adult smokers who make quit attempts and succeed in smoking cessation over a 1-year period, and to identify predictors of attempts to stop and successful smoking cessation.

Design And Setting: This study used Ipsos JSR Company's access panel, whose sampling framework is based on the Basic Resident Register in Japan. We tracked and monitored a selected sample of smokers who were at least 20 years of age through a baseline postal questionnaire survey in 2005 and a follow-up survey 1 year later.

[Effects of skill level on individual behavioral counseling for smoking cessation].

Objective: The relationship between smokers' characteristics and success of smoking cessation has been examined in smoking intervention studies, but counselors' characteristics have generally not been considered. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between counselor's skill level and intervention outcome.

Methods: The subjects were 858 smokers identified at annual health checkup at 6 worksites from January 1998 to September 1999.

Effects of stage-matched repeated individual counseling on smoking cessation: A randomized controlled trial for the high-risk strategy by lifestyle modification (HISLIM) study.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of stage-matched repeated individual behavioral counseling as an intervention for the cessation of smoking.

Methods: We conducted a multisite randomized controlled trial that enrolled smokers unselected for their readiness to quit. There were 979 smokers with hypertension or hypercholesterolemia recruited from 72 study sites and randomly allocated to the intervention or control group.

[Identifying perceived needs among nurses in providing their patients with smoking cessation support in a Japanese hospital results from focus group interviews].

Objective: To identify perceived needs among nurses in providing their patients with smoking cessation support in a Japanese hospital.

Subjects: Thirty-three female nurses who were interested in providing their patients with smoking cessation support in the hospital setting participated in focus group interviews. They conducted six focus group interviews segmented by age, working conditions (e.