Mass disseminable approaches to smoking cessation in general practice

吸烟是澳大利亚最重要的可预防的死亡原因。在任何时候，许多吸烟者都想戒烟。已知有几种干预措施在研究环境中起作用，如护理人员的建议、自助材料、药物治疗和电话咨询。本研究试图找出这些策略是否适用于普通的全科医疗。超过50%的澳大利亚人可以上网，研究表明，寻求健康信息是这项技术最常见的用途之一。互联网使用的迅速增长可能为吸烟者提供一些戒烟辅助手段，包括通过“聊天室”提供在线支持。还可以根据个人的兴趣和戒烟意愿，为他们量身定制干预措施。全科医生除了向不愿戒烟的吸烟者提供支持和护理外，还可以指导他们接受社区服务，如Quit维多利亚，该中心现在通过电话咨询或互联网提供针对个人需求的戒烟方案。我们想知道，如果他们的家庭医生除了常规护理外，还将他们转介给戒烟服务，是否会有更多的吸烟者成功戒烟。除了评估广泛传播的戒烟干预措施的有效性外，该项目还将收集关于使用互联网进行健康研究的数据。很少有人知道如何在网上进行研究。该项目将允许自动监测人们在这种环境下对研究工作的反应。

Tobacco smoking is the most significant preventable cause of mortality in Australia. At any one time, many smokers want to quit. There are several interventions that are known to work in research settings, such as advice from care providers, self-help materials, drug therapies and telephone counselling. This study wants to find out if these strategies work in ordinary general practice. Over 50% of Australian have access to the Internet and research suggests that seeking health information is one of the most common uses of this technology. The rapid growth of Internet use potentially provides access to a number of cessation aids for tobacco smokers, including online support through 'chat rooms'. It is also possible to tailor interventions to individuals according to their stated interests and readiness to quit. General practitioners, in addition to providing support and care to smokers attemtping to quit, can direct them to community services such as Quit Victoria, which now offers smoking cessation programs tailored to individuals' needs delivered either through telephone counselling or by the Internet. We want to know whether more smokers quit successfully if their GP refers them to Quit services in addition to their usual care. As well as assessing the effectiveness of broadly distributable interventions in smoking cessation, this project will also collect data about the use of the Internet for health research. Little is known about how to perform research on the Web. This project will allow automatic monitoring of how people respond to research endeavours in this environment.