Implementing a Staff‐Led Smoking Cessation Intervention in a Diverse Safety‐Net Rheumatology Clinic: A Pre‐Post Scalability Study in a Low‐Resource Setting

Quit Connect (QC), our specialty clinic smoking cessation intervention, supports clinic staff to check, advise, and connect willing patients to a state quit line or class. QC improved tobacco screening and quit line referrals 26-fold in a predominantly White academic health care system population. Implementing QC includes education, electronic health record (EHR) reminders, and periodic audit feedback. This study tested QC's feasibility and impact in a safety-net rheumatology clinic with a predominantly Black population.