Community pharmacists' involvement in smoking cessation: familiarity and implementation of the National smoking cessation guideline in Finland

Table 4 Implementation of the SC Guideline-based actions among the pharmacists familiar and unfamiliar with the Guideline.

SC Guideline based actions and services	Familiar with the SC Guideline (n = 512)	Unfamiliar with the SC Guideline (n = 625)	p-value*
	%	%
Workplace involvement in local multidisciplinary SC actions
Participation in a joint training	15	5	<0.001
Considered joint practices	12	5	<0.001
Have joint practices	5	2	<0.001
Recommends SC Guideline-based pharmacological treatment
Nicotine gum	94	96	0.450
Nicotine patch	86	80	0.010
Nicotine inhaler	22	20	0.345
Bupropion (Zyban^®)	15	10	0.080
Recommends SC Guideline-based non-pharmacological tools
Own quitting decision	68	62	0.020
Written SC support material	56	41	<0.001
Participation in "Quit and Win" competition	26	23	0.242
Support of family and/or friends	17	14	0.120
Telephone-based SC support	12	8	0.090
Pharmacy's individually tailored SC service	10	6	0.006
Group therapy	9	5	0.027
Internet-based SC support	7	4	0.080
Advise to see a public health nurse	4	3	0.104
Follows at "least often" ** the 5A's Intervention with smoking customers.
Advised to quit during the month prior the survey	12	3	<0.001
Told about how smoking effects medication during past month	10	2	<0.001
Asked about smoking during past week	9	2	<0.001
Assessed quitting date during past month	2	1	<0.001
Discusses always*** about smoking with customers who
Self-refer to their smoking	94	91	0.101
are pregnant	45	32	<0.001
buy SC medicines	35	17	<0.001
suffer from a smoking-related disease	18	7	<0.001

* Between the groups familiar and unfamiliar with the SC Guideline
** Reclassified from the options: "always", "often", "at least with every second customer", "sometimes, never". "Often" was considered as option "often or more frequently"
*** "Always" from the original answering options: "always", " sometimes", "never"

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