Table 1

Matrix of intervention components and settings

Settings of interventions
Interventions components at two levelsCommunitiesWorkplacesSchoolsHospitals
1. Public health interventions
Approach to providers:
 Clinical practice guidelines
 Quality and performance measures and payment reform
 Enhancing the technology of electronic health records
 Training or awareness programme to health workers
Approach to population:
 Quitlines
 Smoke-free policies
 Mass media campaign
 Tobacco control programmes
 Public awareness about tobacco consumption risk and benefits of tobacco cessation
2. Individual interventions
Approach to individual adults:
 Behavioural counselling and cessation medication
 Proactive quitline counselling
 Short text message services
 Web or internet-based interventions
  • Note: This matrix was modified using the list of evidence-based interventions in smoking cessation: A report of the Surgeon General.37