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Table 1 Description of methods used by outreach workers
| Intervention phase | Methods and approaches |
|---|---|
| Phase 1 (November 2007-May 2008) | Mapping the location of existing stop smoking services and meeting with local service providers within intervention areas. |
| Networking with small Asian businesses and Bangladeshi and Pakistani community organisations to promote the stop smoking services. | |
| Developing promotional materials for distribution e.g. posters and leaflets. | |
| Engaging in 'street outreach' - approaching people on main roads and side streets, signposting the stop smoking services | |
| Providing 'brief intervention' -counselling smokers to quit using relevant languages (English, Urdu, Mir-puri, Bengali, Sylheti), identifying suitable quit dates, distributing custom-made literature and support material (e.g. Call 2 Quit telephone number) | |
| Carrying out weekly follow-up and behavioural support for smokers referred on to services by telephone and SMS text messaging | |
| Organising promotional events at health centres and baby clinics to promote smoking cessation and highlight dangers of passive smoking to female relatives of smokers | |
| Accompanying health professionals (e.g. Healthy Heart workers) at events and fairs to promote stop smoking services | |
| Phase 2 (June 2008-October 2008) | Identifying suitable venues for smoking cessation clinics |
| Organising promotional events at mosques, leisure centres and libraries, with aim of raising awareness and promoting own smoking cessation clinics | |
| Providing smoking cessation treatment (nicotine replacement therapy) and behavioural support using relevant languages in smoking cessation clinics | |
| Engaging in street outreach to signpost people to own or existing smoking cessation clinics |
