We designed the intervention, smoking cessation treatment
navigation (SCTN), to reflect principles of patient
navigation: Complement rather than replace existing
treatment resources; provide tailored guidance for overcoming
treatment barriers; solve problems as they arise,
and provide non-clinical emotional and social support
and motivational reinforcement during the cessation
process. The objective was to increase uptake, adherence
and completion of guideline-based cessation treatments
among SED smokers who were motivated to attempt quitting.
We integrated the SCTNs into a high-traffic community
site so that they would become familiar and easily
accessible to SED smokers in the course of everyday life.