Tailored Versus Generic Knowledge Brokering to Integrate Mood Management Into Smoking Cessation Interventions in Primary Care Settings: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)

Abstract

BackgroundTobacco smoking and depression are independently major public health problems associated with high morbidity and mortality. In addition, individuals with depression are almost twice as likely to smoke, and less likely to achieve abstinence. In the Smoking Treatment for Ontario Patients (STOP) program, an established smoking cessation program in Ontario, Canada, 38% of smokers in primary care settings have current or past depression with 6-month quit rates that are significantly lower than those without depression (33% vs. 40%, p<0.001).