Purpose: Smoking has adverse effects on both individual health and workplace productivity, increasing the risk of various diseases and contributing to reduced productivity. Quitting smoking delivers substantial health benefits for individuals of all ages. The workplace serves as an ideal setting for planning and implementing smoking cessation programs, which has been shown to improve employee health, reduce the disease burden caused by smoking, lower absenteeism rates, enhance productivity, and decrease medical costs. The study applies the MAP-IT framework to provide smoking cessation services for employees and examines changes in smokers’ self-efficacy and cessation success rates.
Methods: The study was conducted from May to December 2024 in a workplace with over 500 employees, adopting the five-step MAP-IT framework—Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, and Track—to design a smoking cessation intervention. A multidisciplinary smoking cessation team was established, and the prevalence of smoking in the workplace, existing tobacco control policies, and employees’ willingness to participate were assessed through surveys. Based on the findings, the team developed the service process, defined work responsibilities, and designed intervention strategies incorporating the 5A’s, 5R’s, and Shared Decision-Making models, along with incentive mechanisms. A workplace smoking cessation clinic and health education corner were then established to provide counseling and supportive tools. Intervention effectiveness was assessed using relevant indicators such as nicotine dependence level, carbon monoxide concentration, satisfaction, smoking cessation self-efficacy, and cessation rates.
Results: A total of 38 smoking employees participated in the program, with an attendance rate of 73.7% and a full participation rate of 36.8%. Participants’ smoking cessation self-efficacy improved significantly after the intervention (p < 0.05). The smoking cessation success rate was 44.7% at three months and 42.1% at six months.
Conclusion: The workplace smoking cessation intervention implemented using the MAP-IT framework achieved positive outcomes, showing potential for broader application in other organizations.