About this Research Topic
Despite efforts to reduce smoking prevalence, smoking is still a major public health concern. Even though many people who smoke are motivated to quit and undertake quit attempts, quitting smoking successfully is difficult. Importantly, smoking cessation support greatly increases the chance of quitting successfully. Healthcare professionals and organizations can make a large contribution to improving the health of people who smoke, as well as the health of those around them. However, implementation of smoking cessation care is lagging behind, resulting in lower quality of care, higher health care expenditures, and worse patient outcomes. Efforts to make healthcare smoke-free also face challenges.
Smoking has well-known negative consequences for both physical and mental health. However, the implementation and provision of smoking cessation care (ranging from providing quit advice or increasing quit motivation to counseling a quit attempt) is as yet suboptimal in both medical and mental healthcare. Providing people who smoke with adequate support will contribute to a better quality of life, lower prevalence of smoking-related disease, and lower healthcare costs. A better understanding of the current implementation of smoking cessation care and smoke-free healthcare, including barriers and facilitators at different levels (e.g. professional, person who smokes, healthcare system), and of potentially effective implementation strategies is required.
This Research Topic welcomes qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method articles, as well as literature reviews and trial reports, addressing (aspects of) implementation of smoking cessation care and smoke-free healthcare in any healthcare setting. Articles may focus on interventions themselves, the healthcare system, healthcare professional behavior, experiences of the person who smokes, the implementation process, implementation strategies, and so on. Articles showing 'success stories' of adequate implementation and/or implementation strategies are also very much welcome.
Smoking has well-known negative consequences for both physical and mental health. However, the implementation and provision of smoking cessation care (ranging from providing quit advice or increasing quit motivation to counseling a quit attempt) is as yet suboptimal in both medical and mental healthcare. Providing people who smoke with adequate support will contribute to a better quality of life, lower prevalence of smoking-related disease, and lower healthcare costs. A better understanding of the current implementation of smoking cessation care and smoke-free healthcare, including barriers and facilitators at different levels (e.g. professional, person who smokes, healthcare system), and of potentially effective implementation strategies is required.
This Research Topic welcomes qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method articles, as well as literature reviews and trial reports, addressing (aspects of) implementation of smoking cessation care and smoke-free healthcare in any healthcare setting. Articles may focus on interventions themselves, the healthcare system, healthcare professional behavior, experiences of the person who smokes, the implementation process, implementation strategies, and so on. Articles showing 'success stories' of adequate implementation and/or implementation strategies are also very much welcome.
Keywords: smoking cessation care, tobacco, e-cigarette, behavioral support, pharmacotherapy, education, implementation, barriers, facilitators, determinants, people who smoke, healthcare professionals, organizations, patient experience, medical healthcare, mental healthcare, smoke-free healthcare
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