Table 8 Facilitators associated with smoking cessation

• Awareness of smoking-associated harms [31, 49, 50, 57]

• Implementation of anti-smoking laws, rules & regulations [31, 37, 41, 42, 44, 45, 53, 54, 57,58,59]

• SmC facilitation centers [34, 60]

• Support system [38, 50, 54, 56, 61]

• Occurrence of smoking-related health risks [38, 49, 50, 60, 62]

• HCPs’ training on SmC [31, 33, 38, 51, 54, 62, 63]

• Snowballing reluctance to cigarette smoking in community [31]

• Psychological factors [31, 33, 46, 50, 57, 60, 61]

• HCPs working beyond hospitals [34, 51, 52]

• Socio-cultural considerations [31, 44, 45, 47, 48, 54, 63]