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:
Participant gender:
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.