Pharmacist-Led Telehealth Tobacco Cessation Services Compared to Usual Care in a Community Health Center

Footnotes

Author Contributions (CRediT):

ACM contributed to conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, funding acquisition, investigation, methodology, project administration, supervision, visualization, writing - original draft, writing – review & editing. SJV contributed to conceptualization, formal analysis, methodology, writing - original draft, writing – review & editing. ARD, ASF, and JBW contributed to conceptualization, methodology, writing – review & editing. LFW & KAS: investigation and writing – review & editing. ASV contributed to supervision, conceptualization, formal analysis, funding acquisition, methodology, writing – review & editing.

Funding Support: This study was supported by grant funding from the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation and Community Pharmacy Foundation. The funder had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

Disclosures of conflicts of interest: The authors declare no relevant conflicts of interest or financial relationships.

Previous presentation of the work: The results of this study have been reported at the American Pharmacist Association 2021 Annual Meeting Exposition, the Ohio Pharmacist Association 2021 Annual Meeting, the 2021 Ohio Pharmacy Resident Conference.

KEY POINTS

What was already known:

•Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.

•Pharmacist interventions with quitting smoking has led to higher or similar quit rates compared to usual care.

•How patients perceive the services provided by pharmacists for tobacco cessation has not been described.

What this study adds:

•Patients are highly satisfied with the pharmacist tobacco cessation services they received.

•Pharmacists provide a more intensive service by spending more time counseling patients and providing more follow-ups and are more likely to prescribe more effective regimens to quit smoking compared to PCPs.

•This study shows the impact of pharmacist driven services in underserved patient populations and supports the expansion of pharmacist services and reimbursement for tobacco cessation.

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