642
Participants
Start Date
December 31, 2012
Primary Completion Date
July 31, 2015
Study Completion Date
July 31, 2015
Workshop
Intensive psychological intervention included motivation of quitting enhancement, stress management and smoking triggers, craving and relapse are used to provide smoking cessation intervention
Face-to-face counseling
Use motivational interview strategies through face-to-face counseling to provide smoking cessation intervention
Phone counseling
Use motivational interview strategies through phone counseling to provide smoking cessation intervention.
Health talk
Health talk provided information about hazards of tobacco (active smoking, second- and third-hand smoke), benefits of quitting smoking and methods to quit smoking.
Booklet
A 26-page booklet included information about smoking and diseases, benefits of quitting smoking, methods to quit smoking, how to handle withdrawal symptoms, stress management, declaration of quitting smoking, decisional balance of smoking or quitting.
SMS
Fifteen SMS were sent to subjects included welcome messages, risk of smoking, correction of myths about smoking or quitting, quitting tips, benefits of quitting, encouragement of quitting
2/F, 61 Lung Kong Rd, Kowloon City, Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Hong Kong
Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon
OTHER
The University of Hong Kong
OTHER