Introduction:
Tobacco use is a major risk factor of Non-Communicable Disease (NCD). Smokers with NCD need to stop smoking in order to reduce their disease complications. Offering help to quit tobacco is one measure to reduce tobacco use. Nurses provide nursing care at Out Patients Department (OPD) have opportunities to help patients quit smoking. To increase accessibility of smoking cessation service, one- stop nursing service centers providing smoking cessation for patients with NCD were developed by Nurse Network on Tobacco Control of Thailand (NNTC) and tested for its effectiveness.

Objectives:
To examine the abstinence rate of smokers who received brief smoking cessation counseling at one- stop nursing service center for NCD patients.

Methods:
The project was implemented in 10 community hospitals and one tertiary care hospital located in a Southern province of Thailand. Project activities include; 1) obtaining support from hospital chief nurse 2) one day skill training of brief smoking cessation counseling 3) providing brief counseling based on 5As concepts and motivational interviewing technics by nurses at one- stop nursing service center, and 4) coaching by smoking cessation experts. Project was then evaluated at 6 months after its implementation.

Results:
There were one-stop nursing service centers at 28 OPDs with 77 nurses provide smoking cessation. Of 65,731 persons with NCD, 6,895 were cigarette smokers (10.5%). Most smokers were diagnosed with hypertension (37.5%). There were 53.3% of smoker received brief advice and 22% received brief smoking cessation counseling. Abstinence rate was 11.5% at 6 months follow-up.

Conclusion(s):
One-stop nursing service center for smoking cessation can help patients quit smoking. To increase abstinence rate, tobacco cessation medication should be provided for smokers with NCD.