Protocol for the Proactive Or Reactive Telephone Smoking CeSsation Support (PORTSSS) trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Telephone quit lines are accessible to many smokers and are used to engage motivated smokers to make quit attempts. Smoking cessation counselling provided via telephone can either be reactive (i.e. primarily involving the provision of evidence-based information), or proactive (i.e. primarily involving repeated, sequenced calls from and interaction with trained cessation counsellors). Some studies have found proactive telephone counselling more effective and this trial will investigate whether or not proactive telephone support for smoking cessation, delivered through the National Health Service (NHS) Smoking Helpline is more effective or cost-effective than reactive support. It will also investigate whether or not providing nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), in addition

SUBMITTER: Coleman T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2679731 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature