Trial reportJournal of epidemiology and community health2000
Smoking cessation at the workplace. Results of a randomised controlled intervention study. Worksite physicians from the AIREL group.
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- How To Support Smoking Cessation In Primary Care And The Community: A Systematic Review Of Interventions For The Prevention Of Cardiovascular Diseases.Vascular health and risk management · 2019Pooled it
- Workplace interventions for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Physician advice for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- The effectiveness of workplace smoking cessation programmes: a meta-analysis of recent studies.Tobacco control · 2004Pooled it
- Experiences recruiting Indian worksites for an integrated health protection and health promotion randomized control trial in Maharashtra, India.Health education research · 2015Trial
- Tobacco use cessation and weight management among motor freight workers: results of the gear up for health study.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2010Trial
- One year effectiveness of an individualised smoking cessation intervention at the workplace: a randomised controlled trial.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2003Trial
- The Effectiveness of a Smoking Cessation Initiative Among Employees in a Textile Factory.Turkish thoracic journal · 2021Article
- Self-Reported Smoking Status 10-Months After a Single Session Intervention Including an Education Conference About Smoking Harms and Announcement of Spirometric Lung-Age.Clinical medicine insights. Circulatory, respiratory and pulmonary medicine · 2021Article
- Heavy smoking rate trends and related factors in Korean occupational groups: analysis of KNHANES 2007-2012 data.BMJ open · 2015Article
- Workplace tobacco cessation program in India: A success story.Indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2009Article
- A prospective investigation of the impact of smoking bans on tobacco cessation and relapse.Tobacco control · 2001Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo compare the effects of a worksite intervention by the occupational physician offering simple advice of smoking cessation with a more active strategy of advice including a "quit date" and extra support. POPULATION: Employees of an electrical and gas company seen at the annual visit by their occupational physicians. CRITERIA END POINTS: Smoking point prevalence defined as the percentage of smokers who were non-smokers at one year. Secondary criteria were the percentage of smokers who stopped smoking for more than six months and the difference in prevalence of smoking in both groups.
methodsRandomised controlled trial. The unit of randomisation was the work site physician and a random sample of the employees of whom he or she was in charge. The length of the follow up was one year. Each of 30 work site physicians included in the study 100 to 150 employees.
resultsAmong 504 subjects classified as smokers at baseline receiving simple advice (group A) and 591 the more active programme (group B), 68 (13.5%) in group A and 109 (18. 4%) were non-smokers one year later (p=0.03; p=0.01 taking the occupational physician as the statistical unit and using a non-parametric test). Twenty three subjects (4.6%) in group A and 36 (6.1%) in group B (p=0.26) declared abstinence of six months or more. Among non-smokers at baseline, 3.4% in both groups were smokers after one year follow up. The prevalence of smokers did not differ significantly at baseline (32.9% and 32.4%, p=0.75). After the intervention the prevalence of smoking was 30.8% in group A and 28. 7% in group B (p=0.19). An increase of the mean symptoms score for depression in those who quit was observed during this period.
conclusionsA simple cessation intervention strategy during a mandatory annual examination, targeting a population of smokers independently of their motivation to stop smoking or their health status, showed a 36% relative increase of the proportion of smokers who quit smoking as compared with what can be achieved through simple advice.
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