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- Title
Smoking Cessation Training and Treatment: Options for Cancer Centres.
- Authors
deRuiter, Wayne K.; Barker, Megan; Rahimi, Alma; Ivanova, Anna; Zawertailo, Laurie; Melamed, Osnat C.; Selby, Peter
- Abstract
Patients who achieve smoking cessation following a cancer diagnosis can experience an improvement in treatment response and lower morbidity and mortality compared to individuals who continue to smoke. It is therefore imperative for publicly funded cancer centres to provide appropriate training and education for healthcare providers (HCP) and treatment options to support smoking cessation for their patients. However, system-, practitioner-, and patient-level barriers exist that hamper the integration of evidence-based cessation programs within publicly funded cancer centres. The integration of evidence-based smoking cessation counselling and pharmacotherapy into cancer care facilities could have a significant effect on smoking cessation and cancer treatment outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to describe the elements of a learning health system for smoking cessation, implemented and scaled up in community settings that can be adapted for ambulatory cancer clinics. The core elements include appropriate workflows enabled by technology, thereby improving both practitioner and patient experience and effectively removing practitioner-level barriers to program implementation. Integrating the smoking cessation elements of this program from primary care to cancer centres could improve smoking cessation outcomes in patients attending cancer clinics.
- Subjects
SMOKING cessation; CANCER patients; THERAPEUTICS; CANCER chemotherapy; TOBACCO use
- Publication
Current Oncology, 2022, Vol 29, Issue 4, p2252
- ISSN
1198-0052
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/curroncol29040183