title: Proactive outreach smoking cessation program for Chinese employees in China.
abstract: We evaluated the first workplace intervention to help smokers quit in Hong Kong. Smoking employees (N = 642) received a 26-page self-help booklet and 15 fix SMS within 3 months and chose to receive cognitive behavioral workshop (N = 76), or face-to-face counseling (N = 11), or group health talk (N = 516), or telephone counseling (N = 39). Twenty participants were interviewed individually for their opinions about the interventions. By intention-to-treat, the overall self-reported past 7-day point prevalence quit rate was 31.0% and 32.9%, and reduction rate was 15.0% and 13.2% at 6 and 12-months, respectively. More than 20% of the unmotivated smokers at baseline (N = 399) quit in this program. Proactive outreach workplace smoking cessation programs with diverse intensity but without medications, chosen by smokers and supported by employers without further incentives, were feasible in busy working environment in Hong Kong.
authors.affiliation: a School of Nursing , the University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR , China.
authors.forename: Man Ping
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: a School of Nursing , the University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR , China.
authors.forename: Yi Nam
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Suen
authors.affiliation: a School of Nursing , the University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR , China.
authors.forename: William Ho Cheung
authors.initials: WHC
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: b The Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society Kowloon , Hong Kong SAR , China.
authors.forename: Oi Sze
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.affiliation: c School of Public Health , the University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR , China.
authors.forename: Tai Hing
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.affiliation: a School of Nursing , the University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR , China.
authors.forename: Sophia Siu Chee
authors.initials: SSC
authors.lastname: Chan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003376:Counseling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004493:Education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017132:Workplace / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Chinese; employers; multiple interventions; workplace smoking cessation