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Background:

  • Variability in smoking cessation practitioner success rates persists despite accounting for confounding factors.
  • The role of practitioner personality in smoking cessation outcomes remains largely unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between practitioner personality traits and client smoking cessation success rates.
  • To determine if specific personality dimensions predict treatment efficacy in stop-smoking services.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of 1,958 smoking cessation treatment episodes across two services, involving 19 practitioners.
  • Utilized the Ten-Item Personality Inventory to assess five personality dimensions (openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, neuroticism).
  • Employed multi-level random intercept models, controlling for client and practitioner covariates, with 4-week biochemically verified quit status as the outcome.

Main Results:

  • Higher practitioner extraversion scores were significantly associated with increased odds of client abstinence at four weeks (OR = 1.10 self-assessed, OR = 1.32 manager-assessed).
  • Sensitivity analysis confirmed the association between manager-assessed practitioner extraversion and client quit status.

Conclusions:

  • Practitioner extraversion emerges as a potentially significant factor in successful smoking cessation interventions.
  • Further research in diverse populations and settings is warranted to validate these findings.
  • Consideration of personality-targeted training for stop smoking practitioners may enhance overall treatment effectiveness.