Project ACCESS

Slovenian Coalition for Tobacco Control is currently working on a project called ACCESS which stands for Access strategies for teen smoking cessation in Europe.

General objective

The general objective of the project is to gain knowledge on how to motivate young smokers to take part in smoking cessation interventions and to transform this knowledge into concrete recommendations for cessation practice. Therefore, national support networks shall be established fostering the collaboration between various stakeholders (providers of cessation, scientists, media). In order to display promising access ways, the project aims at generating a best practice catalogue as well as guiding principles on how to reach young smokers for cessation interventions.

Strategic relevance & contribution to the programme

By identifying best practice and experiences with recruitment strategies for cessation programmes this work will help to increase the impact of these programmes as more participants will be reached. In the long run, this has the potential to decrease the smoking prevalence in youths and thus prevent the tremendous negative health consequences of smoking in the European Union.

Methods and means

National stakeholders relevant to the topic will be identified and organized within national support networks. Each participating country will assess best practice models based on the experiences of national providers of smoking cessation. These experiences as well as the results of international literature searches will lead to the development of guiding principles. In order to discuss possible strategies for future implementations of the results and to develop recommendations for concrete actions, a European conference will be organized.

Expected outcome

The results of the project should enable relevant stakeholders to (1) better understand adolescents' motivation to participate in smoking cessation interventions, (2) take adequate action to increase recruitment and retention rates of cessation programmes, and (3) improve the interplay between stakeholders of various professional backgrounds in the field of smoking cessation.

Participants:

·       Austria: Institut für Sozial- und Gesundheitspsychologie

·       Belgium: FARES asbl Fonds des Affections Respiratoires

·       CzechRepublic:Charles University in Prague, First Faculty of Medicina, Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology

·       Denmark: Dept. of Prevention and Documentation Danish Cancer Society

·       Germany:Institut für Therapieforschung,GABO:mi Gesellschaft für Ablauforganisation :milliarium mbH & Co. KG

·       Latvia: Riga Addiction Prevention Centre

·       Slovakia: Obcianske združenie Stop fajceniu / Stop Smoking - NGO

·       Slovenia: NGO Young People and Tobacco, UEN member

·       Spain: Smokers' Clinic

·       The Netherlands: Department of Health Education and Health Promotion Maastricht University

The analysis of anonymous questionnaire on the use of world web for the tobacco use prevention among young people

 ACCES Report: Access Strategies for Teen Smoking Cessation: Guiding Principles, Strategies and Activities

For more information please visit the website of ACCESS and if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Slovenian Coalition for Tobacco Control