title: Impediment profiling for smoking cessation: application in the worksite.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To replicate results of a pilot smoking cessation study and demonstrate applicability to a worksite setting.
  
  
  METHODS
  Smokers employed by a community hospital participated in an onsite smoking cessation program. Participants used an "impediment profiling" instrument to rate personal barriers to cessation and were assigned to between one and seven interventions. Cessation was defined as carbon monoxide concentration in expired air of < or = 10 ppm.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fifty-one employees participated. Subjects lost to follow-up were assumed to be smoking, resulting in a 39.2% 1-year quit rate; 47.5% of program completers (n = 40) were smoke-free at 1 year. Self-reported quit rate at 2.5 years was 25.5% (17 lost to attrition assumed to be smoking) with 38.2% of program completers smoke-free.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study suggests that impediment profiling holds promise far smoking cessation and demonstrates feasibility in a worksite setting. Further evaluation of this intervention in the context of randomized controlled trials is warranted.
authors.affiliation: Yale Prevention Research Center, 130 Division St. Derby, CT 06418, USA.
authors.forename: Meghan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: O'Connell
authors.forename: Beth Patton
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Comerford
authors.forename: Hilary K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Wall
authors.forename: Valentine
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Yanchou-Njike
authors.forename: Zubaida
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Faridi
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Katz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016272:Occupational Health; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D017132:Workplace