Promoting Women's Health: A Gender Specific Smoking Cessation Program for Female Smokers in Hong Kong

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2024-11-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

This project aims to publicize quitting among female smokers, and encourage and support those who want to quit by providing face-to-face and/or telephone counseling. The objectives are to:

1. Build up a Women Against Tobacco Taskforce (WATT) with woman volunteers from various organizations to promote quitting in female smokers, and to arouse public awareness of the effects of smoking on sexual, reproductive and child health, and other diseases among women.

2. Conduct a survey among the women volunteers and staff of the women's organization to ascertain their learning needs, knowledge, attitudes, and practice of tobacco control and smoking cessation, and to identify interested participants to join the smoking cessation training program.

3. Design and deliver a smoking cessation counseling training program (based on the learning needs identified), to equip women volunteers with the knowledge and skills in smoking cessation.

4. Develop and evaluate a gender-specific smoking cessation program to help female smokers to reduce and quit smoking.

5. Promote women's health and quality of life, and reduce the life-long morbidity and mortality of female smokers in the long term.

6. Examine the long term (3-year) impact of a gender-specific smoking cessation program on the smoking behaviors of female smokers.

7. Examine another long-term (6-year) impact of a gender-specific smoking cessation program on the smoking behaviors of female smokers.

8. Ascertain the contributing factors in the rate of quitting, retention and relapse.

9. Investigate Hong Kong women smokers awareness and attitude to women quitline.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Hong Kong female resident aged 18 or above

• Able to communicate in Chinese (Cantonese)

• Current Smokers

Exclusion Criteria:

• Have difficulty to communicate via telephone

• Having queries irrelevant to tobacco control