ArticleCancer causes & control : CCC2025
Motivating smoking cessation among patients with cancers not perceived as smoking-related: a targeted intervention.
Article in Cancer causes & control : CCC, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
purposeSmoking after cancer impairs cancer treatment outcomes and prognosis, regardless of cancer type. Prior data suggest that patients with cancers other than lung or head/neck cancer had lower cessation motivation, which in turn predicted lower smoking abstinence. This study evaluated feasibility for a future efficacy trial and assessed the acceptability of brief self-help materials, targeted by cancer type, to enhance cessation motivation.
methodsPatients had a diagnosis of skin melanoma, breast, bladder, colorectal, or gynecological cancers within ≤ 6 months, smoked ≥ 1 cigarette in the past month, and were not currently participating in a cessation program. After completing a baseline assessment, participants received the booklet corresponding to their cancer type. Follow-ups were conducted 1 week and 1 month post-intervention.
resultsAmong 118 patients potentially eligible, 109 were successfully contacted and 53 patients were eligible and all consented. Among consenting patients, 92.5% completed baseline, and 90.6% received the intervention. Among patients receiving the intervention, 91.7% completed all study procedures and follow-up. At 1 month, 87.5% reported reading the booklet and 92.8% rated it as good/excellent. Motivation to quit smoking increased over time among those with lower motivation at baseline, 33.3% sought smoking cessation assistance, and 25.0% were smoke-free 1 month post-intervention.
conclusionThis study demonstrated the feasibility and acceptability of the first intervention developed for patients with cancers not typically associated with smoking. This low-cost and easy to disseminate intervention has potential to increase motivation to quit smoking among patients with cancers not typically perceived as smoking-related.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.