Development of a community-based network to promote smoking cessation among female smokers in Hong Kong

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Table 3 Practices of smoking cessation interventions among workers and volunteers of WATT (n = 623)

	n	%^a	Alpha
Practice in smoking cessation counseling
Had tried to advise smokers quit in the past 12 months	227	39.3	---
Among those who did not practise smoking cessation (n = 335)
Reasons for not practising smoking cessation counseling
No contact with smokers	157	46.9
Don’t have the related knowledge and skills	74	22.1
It is not my responsibility	33	9.9
I think smokers don’t want to be advised	79	23.6
I think it is ineffective	89	26.6
I don’t want to harm the relationship	55	16.4
Others	14	4.2
Among those who had practised smoking cessation counseling (n = 277)	Mean	SD
Practice of 5As (0 = Never to 3 = Frequently)			0.89
Assess about level of tobacco use	1.07	1.14
Advise to stop smoking	1.39	0.95
Assess willingness to make a quit attempt	0.89	0.96
Assist in quit attempt (brief advice or counseling)	1.02	0.96
Arrange follow up contact	0.45	0.81
Motivate clients’ intention to quit smoking	1.11	0.93
Refer to health professionals for advice about quit smoking	0.40	0.79
Organize seminars/health talks on tobacco and health	0.40	0.76
Average score	0.81	0.68
Perceived self-efficacy in smoking cessation counseling (1 = ‘completely not’ to 4 = ‘absolutely true’)			0.87
I believe I will be successful in helping smokers to quit	2.01	0.59
I am confident to help smokers to quit	2.14	0.59
I think I am competent in helping smokers stop smoking	2.16	0.60
Average score	2.10	0.53

^aThe total number of responses may be different for each item due to missing data

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