Pharmacists' Smoking Cessation Counseling Practices: A Comparison Between 2005 and 2010

Tremblay, Mireille; Comtois, Dominic; O’Loughlin, Jennifer

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“…3 It is well established that pharmacists express high levels of interest in assisting their patients with quitting, 4 yet time constraints limit their capacity to address tobacco use with patients. [4][5][6][7][8][9] As such, pharmacies might serve as an ideal setting for brief interventions and referrals to the tobacco quitline. There is a growing body of research providing evidence of feasibility for integrating brief cessation interventions into busy practice settings.…”

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Outcomes of a randomized trial evaluating two approaches for promoting pharmacy-based referrals to the tobacco quitline

Hudmon¹,

Corelli²,

Moor³

et al. 2018

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association

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Brief cessation interventions are feasible in community pharmacies, and the 2 approaches evaluated for engaging pharmacy personnel were similarly effective and collectively led to meaningful increases in the number and proportion of all patients who called the quitline. Involvement of community pharmacy personnel in tobacco cessation presents a significant opportunity to promote quitline services by connecting patients with an effective publicly available resource.

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Outcomes of a randomized trial evaluating two approaches for promoting pharmacy-based referrals to the tobacco quitline

Hudmon¹,

Corelli²,

Moor³

et al. 2018

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association

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“…A study among Canadian pharmacists found that smoking cessation training in undergraduate and postgraduate education was associated with an increased belief that the role of a pharmacist includes providing effective counseling for smoking cessation. Therefore, the training program developed may need to be modified further to address this issue [ 26 ].…”

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A Pragmatic Pilot Cluster-Randomized Study of Tobacco Screening and Smoking Cessation Program for Community Pharmacies in Japan: FINE Program

Onda

Horiguchi²,

Domichi

et al. 2021

J. Smok Cessat

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Objectives. To investigate the effectiveness of a smoking cessation program (FINE program) in community pharmacies. Methods. A cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted in 11 community pharmacies in Japan. The participants were randomly assigned to a pharmacist-led structured smoking cessation program (intervention group) or pharmacist-led usual care (control group). The intervention group was followed up over the telephone on the third day of smoking cessation, and ongoing follow-up and advice were provided according to the original smoking cessation guidebook developed for the current study based on a behavioral change approach. The control group received brief advice and ready-made pamphlets on smoking cessation from pharmacists upon their visit to these community pharmacies. The primary outcome was continued smoking cessation as determined by self-reporting and carbon monoxide monitoring with a microsmokerlyzer after 3 months. Results. Five hundred and seventy-two smokers who met the eligibility criteria visited the pharmacies included in the study. Of these individuals, 24 patients agreed to participate in the study. The quit rates were 45.5% and 18.2% in the intervention and control groups, respectively ( P = 0.380 , effect size = 0.60 ). Conclusion. Based on the effect size values, the FINE program may be effective to some extent, but the difference was not significant. We speculate that this is related to the small sample size due to difficulty in recruiting. Further studies with an effective recruitment method and larger sample sizes are needed to accurately verify the effectiveness of this program.

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“…17 Training is generally associated with an improvement in pharmacists’ counseling abilities and psychosocial rewards, including improved self-esteem, and positive attitudes towards cessation counseling. 18 Therefore, the development of a training course and a feasible smoking cessation program for community pharmacists is needed.…”

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Pharmacist-Delivered Smoking Cessation Program in Community Pharmacy (The FINE Program) in Japan—The Development of a Training Course and a Feasibility Study

Onda

Kuwanoe²,

Hashimoto³

et al. 2019

Journal of Pharmacy Practice

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Aim: Although smoking cessation support has been recommended as a routine component of pharmacists’duties, there is limited evidence of smoking cessation being achieved successfully in community pharmacy. The aim of this study was to develop a new smoking cessation program for use in the community pharmacy setting and investigate its feasibility. Methods: A feasibility study (the Family pharmacist’s Intervention for Nicotine Elimination [FINE] program) was conducted using 8 pharmacists at 2 community pharmacies in Japan. The pharmacists recruited as subjects smokers 20 or more years of age who were taking medications such as antidiabetes drugs. The patients completed questionnaires assessing their smoking status, and the pharmacists provided them with smoking cessation support services. Participating patients met with the pharmacists or talked to them on the phone 5 times at 2- to 4-week intervals and received personalized and structured brief smoking cessation advice. The primary outcome was continuous abstinence determined by Micro Smokerlyzer carbon monoxide monitor at 3 months. Results: Of 5306 patients, 2296 patients were screened and the rate of smoking was found to be 12.7%. Five smoking patients received the FINE program from pharmacists who had received training. One of the 5 succeeded in quitting smoking after 3 months. Conclusions: This is the first study to target Japanese smoking patients in community pharmacies with a brief structured intervention. The results tentatively support the feasibility of the FINE program. Further research including a randomized controlled trial is required to confirm the effectiveness of the FINE program.

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Pharmacists' Smoking Cessation Counseling Practices: A Comparison Between 2005 and 2010

Abstract: Smoking cessation counseling for patients ready to quit improved from 2005 to 2010 among female pharmacists but not among male pharmacists. Training is generally associated with improved counseling and improved cessation-related psychosocial characteristics.

Cited by 9 publications

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Outcomes of a randomized trial evaluating two approaches for promoting pharmacy-based referrals to the tobacco quitline

Outcomes of a randomized trial evaluating two approaches for promoting pharmacy-based referrals to the tobacco quitline

A Pragmatic Pilot Cluster-Randomized Study of Tobacco Screening and Smoking Cessation Program for Community Pharmacies in Japan: FINE Program

Pharmacist-Delivered Smoking Cessation Program in Community Pharmacy (The FINE Program) in Japan—The Development of a Training Course and a Feasibility Study

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