Every lung screening visit includes stop-smoking medicine, opt-out
Lung screening is a teachable moment. Giving cessation medicine and support by default at every scan, unless the person opts out, roughly doubles quit rates.
Opt-out cessation in screening programmes (e.g. the YESS trial) improves quit rates. Propose mandating opt-out pharmacotherapy (varenicline or cytisine) and counselling at every low-dose CT visit as a programme standard, with quit rate as a key performance indicator.
- Prevention we already have is not deployed · Around four in ten cancers are preventable with tools we already own: vaccines, tobacco control, weight, alcohol, sun and infection control.
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