Brief Intervention on Smoking Cessation in Primary Care Setting

WHO advocates brief interventions to be delivered by all health professionals to smoking patients using 5A’s and 5R’s models, which typically take 3 to 5 minutes. Offering advice as brief as three minutes or less has also been shown to increase quit rate by 30%.

The 5As guide you through the right process to talk to patients who are ready to quit and deliver advice. The 5Rs are the content areas that should be addressed in a motivational counselling intervention to help those who are not ready to quit.

A demonstration on 5A5R

Brief Intervention Delivery Flowchart