Real-world impact of quitline interventions for provider-referred smokers.

Background: The healthcare provider-referral quitline model has potential to help identify and connect more smokers to effective cessation services as compared to the self-referral model alone. However, research is limited as to whether provider-referred smokers, who may have more barriers to quitting, can have similar rates of quit success using traditional quitline interventions as self-referred smokers.

Purpose: To (1) determine how provider-referred smokers may differ from self-referred smokers in their demographics, service utilization, and quit rates and (2) quantify the impact of traditional quitline services on provider-referred smokers' ability to quit.