Organizational Characteristics and Smoking Cessation Support in Community-Based Lung Cancer Screening Programs.

Abstract

After the National Lung Screening Trial demonstrated that annual lung cancer screening (LCS) with chest CT can reduce lung cancer mortality by 20% [1], CMS released beneficiary screening eligibility as age 55 to 77 years, asymptomatic for lung cancer, smoking history of at least 30 pack-years, and current smoker or a quit time of less than 15 years for former smokers. In addition, screening was to be performed in conjunction with a LCS shared decision making (SDM) visit (to include counseling on the importance of smoking cessation or continued abstinence from smoking for former smokers) and imaging facilities performing LCS were to offer smoking cessation interventions [2].