A brief smoking cessation intervention for women in low-income planned parenthood clinics.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to evaluate a brief smoking cessation intervention for women 15 to 35 years of age attending Planned Parenthood clinics.


METHODS
Female smokers (n = 1154) were randomly assigned either to advice only or to a brief intervention that involved a 9-minute video, 12 to 15 minutes of behavioral counseling, clinician advice to quit, and follow-up telephone calls.


RESULTS
Seventy-six percent of those eligible participated. Results revealed a clear, short-term intervention effect at the 6-week follow-up (7-day self-reported abstinence: 10.2% vs 6.9% for advice only, P < .05) and a more ambiguous effect at 6 months (30-day biochemically validated abstinence: 6.4% vs 3.8%, NS).


CONCLUSIONS
This brief, clinic-based intervention appears to be effective in reaching and enhancing cessation among female smokers, a traditionally underserved population.
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AMC Cancer Research Center, Denver, Colo., USA. russkpf@earthlink.net
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D009922:Oregon; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D011203:Poverty; D015397:Program Evaluation; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014932:Women's Health Services