Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Smoking Cessation in the Primary Care Setting

Individual, Telephone-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Smoking Cessation in the Primary Healthcare Setting: Feasibility and Potential Efficacy

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and potential efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in enhancing smoking cessation among attendees in primary healthcare settings.

The program is preventive and corrective, and carries brief messages by approaching and influencing services attendees who may not be able to reach in traditional reactive approach method of service users. Those traditional approaches are, for example, quitline and smoking cessation clinic. It can therefore benefit a larger population at low cost.

Inclusion Criteria:

• aged 18 years and older
• currently smoking at least one cigarette per day in the past 30 days
• Hong Kong residents
• able to communicate in Cantonese
• currently residing in Hong Kong and expecting to continue to do so for the next 6 months
• have access to a telephone

Exclusion Criteria:

• currently undergoing another smoking cessation or similar program