Readiness of Lung Cancer Screening Sites to Deliver Smoking Cessation Treatment: Current Practices, Organizational Priority, and Perceived Barriers

Conclusions:
Although encouraging that lung cancer screening sites endorsed the importance of smoking cessation interventions, greater attention to identifying and addressing barriers for tobacco treatment delivery is needed in order to maximize the potential benefit of integrating smoking cessation into lung cancer screening protocols.

Implications:
This study is the first to describe practice patterns, organizational priority, and barriers for delivery of smoking cessation treatment in a national sample of lung cancer screening sites.

Source: Nicotine and Tobacco Research - April 8, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: Ostroff, J. S., Copeland, A., Borderud, S. P., Li, Y., Shelley, D. R., Henschke, C. I. Tags: Original Investigation Source Type: research