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 networks will be established fostering the collaboration between various stakeholders in teen (health) development. In order to display promising access ways, the project output consists of a good practice catalogue as well as guiding principles on how to reach young smokers for cessation interventions.
By identifying good practice and experiences with recruitment strategies for cessation programs this work will help to increase the impact of these programs 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 tremedous negative health consequences of smoking in the European Union.
National stakeholders relevant to the topic will be identified and organized within national networks. Each participating country will assess good practice models based on the experiences of national providers of smoking cessation. These experiences as well as the results of an international literature review 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.
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 programs, and (3) improve the interplay between stakeholders of various professional backgrounds in the field of smoking cessation and teen (health) development.
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