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Canada

The timeline on Progress in integrating smoking cessation into cancer care across Canada shows that the percentage of cancer care settings offering smoking cessation support has increased over time, from 26% in 2012 to 2017, to 87% in the 2020/21 fiscal year. The goal is to reach 100% by the 2021/22 fiscal year.

Two graphs indicate that in 2020, 87% of cancer settings offered outpatients support to quit smoking, and also in 2020, 44% of settings offered culturally appropriate supports for First Nations, Inuit and Métis patients with cancer.

Yukon

The timeline on Smoking cessation in cancer care in Yukon shows Yukon’s Partnership-funded project, which is focused on integrating tobacco cessation with cancer care in Yukon. From 2019 to 2020, they will develop and implement a system where all new patients with cancer are screened for tobacco use, advised to quit and referred to culturally safe smoking cessation support, using an opt-out approach. From 2020 to 2021, they will enhance and sustain tobacco cessation services and work to include commercial tobacco cessation as a standard of care for patients with cancer in hospital accreditation.

Northwest Territories

The timeline on Smoking cessation in cancer care in Northwest Territories shows Northwest Territories’ Partnership-funded project, which is focused on integrating smoking cessation in cancer care. From 2019 to 2022, they will develop and implement a formal approach to supporting patients with cancer to quit smoking, including coordinating smoking cessation care between Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife and Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton.

Nunavut

The timeline on Smoking cessation in cancer care in Nunavut shows Nunavut’s Partnership-funded project, which is focused on tobacco cessation for Nunavummiut cancer patients. From 2019 to 2021, they will hire a dedicated staff member at Qikiqtani General Hospital to oversee the tobacco cessation program. From 2020 to 2021, they will systematize identification of tobacco users, tobacco cessation services and follow-up, and provide training to healthcare providers. From 2021 to 2022, they will provide enhanced tobacco cessation services integrated into cancer care and spread to the other regions in the future.

British Columbia

The timeline on Smoking cessation in cancer care in British Columbia shows British Columbia’s Partnership-funded project, which is focused on integrating smoking cessation in cancer centres. From 2019 to 2020, they will initiate a smoking cessation program for outpatients in all six regional cancer centres. From 2020 to 2021, they will monitor program uptake and quit/reduction rates at 30 days and 6 and 12 months. From 2021 to 2022, they will enhance and sustain smoking cessation program, including additional training for cancer centre staff.

Alberta

The timeline on Smoking cessation in cancer care in Alberta shows Alberta’s Partnership-funded project, which is focused on optimizing cancer outcomes through smoking cessation. In 2019, they will improve and sustain screening, brief intervention and referral at cancer centres. In 2020, they will update patient education resources and provide enhanced information on how patients can access financial support for smoking cessation medications. In 2021, they will offer online education for health professionals to develop the awareness, knowledge and skills needed to assess and implement smoking cessation interventions for patients with cancer. From 2020 to 2021, they will develop a referral process from cancer centres to community-based smoking cessation supports.

Saskatchewan

The timeline on Smoking cessation in cancer care in Saskatchewan shows Saskatchewan’s Partnership-funded project, which is focused on smoking cessation in cancer care. In 2019, they will provide health care providers and community pharmacists with access to training and resources on culturally appropriate smoking cessation in cancer care. From 2020 to 2021, they will build capacity to implement the 3A (Ask, Advise, Act) model for all new patients with cancer, with free smoking cessation medications and referrals to community pharmacists and the Smokers’ Helpline.

Manitoba

The timeline on Smoking cessation in cancer care in Manitoba shows Manitoba’s Partnership-funded project, which is focused on economic analysis and stakeholder engagement related to CancerCare Manitoba’s Quit Smoking Program. From 2019 to 2021, they will conduct an economic analysis of the Quit Smoking Program to demonstrate value for money and support its ongoing funding. They will also engage administration, clinicians and staff to promote smoking cessation support as a part of the standard of care for cancer treatment.

Ontario

The timeline on Smoking cessation in cancer care in Ontario shows Ontario’s Partnership-funded project, which is focused on implementing measures for patient-reported outcomes to verify the effectiveness of smoking cessation. From 2019 to 2021, they will develop a system to measure and report on cancer patients’ smoking cessation outcomes to demonstrate impact of the program and allow additional opportunities for cessation support; improve connections for Indigenous patients to access culturally safe support, and; develop and launch a smoking cessation patient-reported outcome survey in two pilot sites. In 2021, they will evaluate the smoking cessation patient-reported outcome survey to prepare for provincial roll-out.

Quebec

The timeline on Smoking cessation in cancer care in Quebec shows Quebec’s Partnership-funded project, which is focused on smoking cessation treatment in cancer care. From 2019 to 2022, they will implement a comprehensive and integrated smoking cessation program for patients with cancer and their families using the Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation (OMSC, a program designed by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute), at two Integrated University Health and Social Services Centres (CIUSSS): CIUSSS de l’Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal and CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal. A longer-term goal is to share the practices, tools and training from the Smoking Cessation Treatment in Cancer Care project with all cancer centres in Quebec, to have a concerted approach across all centres.

New Brunswick

The timeline on Smoking cessation in cancer care in New Brunswick shows New Brunswick’s Partnership-funded project, which is focused on expanding tobacco cessation support in outpatient cancer care settings. From 2019 to 2020, they will develop and implement a referral pathway for tobacco cessation support for family members. From 2019 to 2022, they will expand tobacco cessation follow-up support to better meet the needs of patients with cancer, and improve data capture and reporting and conduct an economic evaluation of the program. From 2021 to 2022, they will demonstrate the impact of providing patients with free smoking cessation medications, including NRT, at the point of care.

Nova Scotia

The timeline on Smoking cessation in cancer care in Nova Scotia shows Nova Scotia’s Partnership-funded project, which is focused on integrating evidence-based tobacco cessation into the Nova Scotia cancer care program. From 2019 to 2020, they will develop and implement a tobacco cessation and cancer care policy, including an opt-out approach to referrals. From 2020 to 2021, the will standardize tobacco screening questions to ensure consistent screening, education and referral processes. From 2021 to 2022, they will train cancer clinic staff in tobacco cessation and cultural competency.

Prince Edward Island

The timeline on Smoking cessation in cancer care in Prince Edward Island shows Prince Edward Island’s Partnership-funded project, which is focused on enhancing smoking cessation services to support optimal outcomes for cancer patients. From 2019 to 2020, they will implement an opt-out approach to tobacco cessation services for patients with cancer. From 2020 to 2022, they will develop and implement on-site tobacco cessation counselling and NRT at patients’ existing appointments and throughout treatment, and support caregivers with counselling and referrals. From 2020 to 2022, they will train tobacco cessation counsellors and update educational materials for providers and patients. In 2022, they will establish a business plan for program sustainability.

Newfoundland and Labrador

The timeline on Smoking cessation in cancer care in Newfoundland and Labrador shows Newfoundland and Labrador’s Partnership-funded project, which is focused on the enhancement of smoking cessation services in ambulatory oncology in Newfoundland and Labrador. From 2018 to 2019, they will integrate smoking cessation as a standard of care in ambulatory oncology through culture change and education. From 2020 to 2021, they will expand smoking cessation access to all four regional cancer centres and peripheral sites and enhance the delivery of smoking cessation services to Indigenous patients with cancer.