A preliminary study on the effect of pharmacist counseling on awareness of and willingness to quit smoking in Malaysian population

• Main Authors: Babar, Zaheer-ud-din, Irfan Bukhari, Nadeem, Sarwar, Wasim, Efendie, Benny, Pereira, Rosa, Nik Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerLink 2007
• Subjects: HA29 Theory and method of social science statistics
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/8742/1/9._PWSci.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/8742/; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11096-005-2905-4

Objectives: This paper presents an outcome of pharmacist counseling among Malaysian smokers for their awareness of and willingness to quit smoking. Method: It was a cross-sectional study during a 3-day public health campaign at a shopping complex. Each self-referred participant was asked to com...