Project Summary

This research will examine;

• strategies which may be used in the Australian community pharmacy setting to improve the proactive engagement of smokers by pharmacy staff in smoking cessation activities,
• the quitting success rate of those individuals
• the costs benefits of offering such programs through community pharmacy.

This work will complement work in the S2/S3 area and will develop a systematic approach for pharmacists to proactively access risk factors such as smoking. This will help pharmacists to intervene with smokers who may be at greater risk due to other medical conditions.
A prospective unblinded randomised controlled trial will compare the effectiveness of a multi-faceted implementation intervention in a stratified sample of Community Pharmacies, using a range of qualitative and quantitative pre- and post- measures.

• Executive Summary
• Final Report
• Final Report Appendices