Mindfulness Training for Smoking Cessation in Women in Workplaces

This study has the following objectives: 1. To raise the awareness of female smokers about the harmfulness of tobacco towards their life issues 2. To encourage female smokers to stop using tobacco 3. To assess the effectiveness of mindfulness approach for smoking cessation in women We will use cluster randomisation. About 40 companies (5 smokers / company) involved in the study will be matched on the company characteristics (e.g. company size, the industry the company belongs to). Using random generator in Excel, random number will be first generated to each pair i.e. there will be 1-40 random numbers. For each pair, the two companies will be randomly assigned to 0 or 1. Companies who are assigned to 1 will be allocated to intervention . Interviewers (assessors) in the follow-ups will not be involved in the randomization process and be totally blinded to the group assignment (allocation concealment). Invitation letter will be sent to beauty and retail industries or other women-related industries by Lok Sin Tong. Health talks on smoking and its hazard will deliver to each company. For those who join the workshops after the health talks will fill in pre- and post- workshop questionnaires (Appendix 4-5). Women who attend the health talk will be recruited on site. Women will be screened by the criteria of eligibility form (Appendix 1) and all eligible women smokers will be asked to sign on informed consents (Appendix 2, 3) before they participate in the programs. After they consent to participate, they will fill in a baseline questionnaire (Appendix 6), and will be assigned to intervention or control group according to the allocation of their company. Some of the eligible women may miss the health talks and directly join the intervention program, because of this situation the intervention group will be further divided into Group A and B: women in Group A will attend health talks and intervention program, women in Group B will only attend intervention program. Interv