Many quality improvement techniques for smoking cessations—including the promotion of evidence-based treatments and well-coordinated methods for the reduction of tobacco treatment—can improve health outcomes, but their influence is often limited by factors beyond clinicians’ control, such as smokers’ education, employment, and social support. The community health problem is the concern that many of the ongoing smokers in the United States are what is called socioeconomically disadvantaged adults (SED). The SED are not likely than others to accomplish and uphold self-restraint regardless of similar quit-attempt rates.
The evidence-based solution to this problem is the idea that chronic and acute stressors may interfere with SED smokers, who attempt to quit without any cause. The study designed and pilot-tested ground-breaking solution, that is a non-clinical community-based intervention. The use of smoking cessation treatment navigators is to find feasibility for the assessment by randomized controlled trial (RCT).
The use of community-based navigators as an effective evidence-based solution for the tobacco cessation treatment, that is non-clinical in nature—and is very successful even in the expansion beyond the state line of United States. This is because the results of the piloted study did not specify one community of interest, but only proved that smoking cessation treatment navigators are achievable to study in community settings, and acknowledged for increasing use of EBCT among low-income smokers (Levinson et al. 2015). The one limitation to suggest its universal usage in several communities or other populations is that such evidence-based cessation treatment is more effective among low-income smokers (Levinson et al. 2015).
Levinson, A. H., Valverde, P., Garrett, K., Kimminau, M., Burns, E. K., Albright, K., & Flynn, D. (2015). Community-based navigators for tobacco cessation treatment: a proof-of-concept pilot study among low-income smokers. BMC Public Health, 15(1), 627-636. doi:10.1186/s12889-015-1962-4
