Smoking Cessation in Cancer Patients

Subjects will receive brief advice based on risk communication by a nurse counselor. The brief advice will be based on a specifically-designed risk communication leaflet that warns about the risks of continued smoking for subjects' cancer treatment and prognosis. Subjects will receive a booster intervention via telephone at 1 week to assess the progress of and barriers to the subjects' action plans and identifying individual difficulties and facilitators towards quitting. They also receive a generic standard self-help smoking cessation booklet.

Subjects in this group will receive a generic self-help smoking cessation booklet and standard care without risk communication. They will have the same follow-up sections as the intervention group to receive diseases support.