@Article{Girvalaki2016, journal="Tobacco Prevention \& Cessation", volume="2", number="April Supplement", year="2016", title="TiTAN Crete (Tobacco Treatment Training Network in Crete). Designing Smoking Cessation intervention in Primary Care Practice: Preliminary data", abstract="Introduction We report on baseline tobacco treatment rates and changes in evidence-based tobacco treatment knowledge among General Practitioners (GPs), who participated in the TiTAN Crete training-based intervention. Material and Methods A pre-post control group evaluation was conducted. GPs (n=15) completed a survey prior to and immediately following the training session and a cross sectional patient sample of patients (n=540) was sampled pre-post intervention. Results Tobacco use prevalence was 38%. The majority (64.1%) of tobacco users reported readiness to quit smoking in the next 6-months and 63.4% reported not having made a quit attempt in the past year. GPs tobacco treatment knowledge was limited at baseline. Significant increases in knowledge were documented in 6/13 of the knowledge domains. A follow-up survey to examine changes in rates of tobacco treatment delivery among GPs is underway. Conclusions The TiTAN Crete training program was effective in increasing providers tobacco related knowledge. ", author="Girvalaki, Charis and Papadakis, Sophia and Vardavas, Constantine and Pipe, Andrew and Lionis, Christos", doi="10.18332/tpc/62412", url="https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/62412" }