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  MA 18 - Global Tobacco Control and Epidemiology II (ID 676)

  • Event: WCLC 2017
  • Type: Mini Oral
  • Track: Epidemiology/Primary Prevention/Tobacco Control and Cessation
  • Presentations: 1
  • Moderators:H. Kawai, Christian Klaus Manegold
  • Coordinates: 10/17/2017, 15:45 - 17:30, Room 511 + 512

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    MA 18.02 - Outcomes of Integrating Smoking Cessation Counseling in a Lung Screening Program (ID 8575)

    15:50 - 15:55  |  Author(s): C. Barone
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    Background:
    The National Lung Screening Trial demonstrated that lung screening reduces lung cancer mortality. In our lung screening program, the incidence of lung cancer is a small percentage (2.3% (10/440)). A more common, treatable, and potentially overlooked condition in this population is nicotine addiction (70.2% smoking (309/440) in our program). It has been widely postulated that lung cancer screening provides a “teachable moment” for smoking cessation. Smoking cessation counseling has been integrated in our lung cancer screening program since 2014. The goal is to report outcomes of integrating smoking cessation in the lung screening program.
    
    Method:
    In our lung screening program, all scheduling is done by a single coordinator who is both a Nurse Practitioner and a Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist (CTTS). A call to schedule the scan is done and initial basic tobacco cessation intervention is integrated into every call. Further follow up as in depth face-to-face counseling is offered at the point of the scan, by the coordinator or other CTTS. Tobacco cessation follow up may be further integrated into telephone calls to give patients screening results. Patients noted to be smoking at the time of the screen (n=103) were surveyed by telephone by a researcher to determine whether they had quit smoking, reduced, or made no changes. Further chart review yielded 107 additional patients unable to be reached by the researcher, but data regarding smoking was available from medical records.
    
    Result:
    Of the patients able to be contacted by telephone, 11.7% (12/103) quit smoking, 53.4% (55/103) had reduced the amount they were smoking, and 35.0% (36/103) had made no changes. Additional chart review yielded 107 patients screened and 14.0% (15/107) had documented cessation at least one year after screening.
    
    Conclusion:
    Integration of tobacco cessation counseling into our lung screening program led to an overall quit rate of 12.9% (27/210) and of those interviewed, 60.4% (55/91) of those who did not quit, reduced the amount that they smoked. While this may sound modest, this population is heavily addicted, and unaided cessation has poor success rates, often cited as less than 4%. This supports integration of cessation counseling as a potential model for improving smoking cessation in the lung screening population. Further work with integrating pharmacotherapy and more frequent regular follow up may yield even higher success rates.
    
    

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