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. 2022 Oct 17;3:112. doi: 10.1186/s43058-022-00361-8

Table 1.

Intervention components, adaptations, and justification

Intervention Adaptation Justification

1. Ask all patients if they smoke

2. Advise smokers to quit

3. Assist with brief counseling

▪ Added specific health risks of cigarette and dual use among HIV patients to provider-delivered advice and brief counseling

▪ High rates of dual use in this among this patient population in Vietnam.

▪ Lack of patient knowledge about the risks of tobacco use in general and specific impact on HIV-related health outcomes.

Quitline counseling No content modifications Study design compares multisession cessation counseling tailored to PLWH to the usual care service of the Quitline.
Nurse-delivered 6-session counseling intervention Integrated content from Positively Smoke Free [47, 48]. Used findings to further address individual, sociocultural, structural, and interpersonal factors that influence tobacco use in this population Changes to manual to address theory-driven barriers to quitting among PLWH who smoke (e.g., build culturally appropriate refusal skills to address smoking norms among peers, and coworkers).
Text messages (SMS)

▪ SMS program added to arms 2 and 3

▪ SMS library content tailored to align with counseling session content [49]

Maintain motivation and engagement in between sessions and reinforce session content.
NRT ▪ Replaced patch with gum and extended to 6 weeks ▪ Patches are not available in Vietnam; therefore, gum is a sustainable alternative