title: [Evaluation on quitting intervention in health professionals of six cities].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the impact of quitting intervention in health professionals of six cities, developing smoking cessation models in China.
  
  
  METHODS
  All community directors and health professionals in Seven communities were selected in six cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Changsha, Shenzhen and Puyang were surveyed for smoking cessation using cross-sectional study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 25 hospitals that kept on providing smoking cessation service after the intervention. The percent of the awareness about "the harm of smoking is public health problem" has improved 12.8%. The percent of getting some smoking cessation methods and actively providing smoking cessation have improved 9.2% and 7.3% respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Training the health professionals can not only increase their knowledge but also provide them smoking cessation service actively. It is a effective way to obtain methods and skills of quitting.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Ya-Hong
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nan
authors.forename: Juntang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shibei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Mingzhu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Denan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Xiaosheng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Xiangyang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tian
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002681:China; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D024382:Professional Role / Q000523:psychology*; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention