Introduction:
Tobacco use has still been a crucial leading cause of non-communicated diseases. The Village Health Volunteers (VHVs) play a significant role for tobacco control in Thailand, particularly in the primary care system. However, they need to be offered smoking cessation assistance competencies in order to reach the national indicator for tobacco control.

Objectives:
This quasi-experimental study aimed to compare the level of smoking cessation assistance abilities among the Village Health Volunteers (VHVs) after participating the health literacy for smoking cessation assistance developing program (HLSCADP).

Methods:
The study participants were 64 VHVs in a province located in the central region of Thailand. The participants were trained and equipped with smoking cessations toolkits for providing smoking cessation service in primary care settings by using the HLSCADP. The research instruments consisted of the treatment which is the HLSCADP and the collecting data instruments including demographic data smoking cessation assistance abilities and health literacy for smoking cessation assistance questionnaires. The data were performed during 2019, June. Pair t-test was used to compare level of smoking cessation assistance abilities among the participants between before and after participating the HLSCADP.

Results:
The finding illustrates that the level of smoking cessation assistance abilities among the participants before and after joining the HLSCADP is in the moderate and high, respectively. Interestingly, the level of smoking cessation assistance abilities after participating the HLSCADP is higher than before (t=2.78, p-value < .05).

Conclusion(s):
Hence, the result of this study indicates that the level of smoking cessation assistance abilities among the VHVs can be enhanced by the HLSCADP. The HLSCADP can be used as a guideline for developing smoking cessation assistance abilities among the VHVs in order to promote tobacco quit rate in Thailand.