{"doi":"10.3390/mps8040070","title":"Project SWITCH Study Protocol: A Tobacco-Free Workplace Program for Dissemination and Implementation in Lung Cancer Screening Centers","abstract":"BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Cigarette smoking has been causally linked to 90% of all cases of lung cancer, contributing to its high mortality rate. Lung cancer screening centers offer low-dose computed tomography, the only recommended diagnostic screening tool for lung cancer detection. A previous Texas-based study found that centers with lung cancer screening programs failed to consistently provide evidence-based tobacco cessation and relapse prevention interventions recommended by clinical practice guidelines to their patients, who are primarily people who currently or previously smoked. This represents a missed opportunity to assist patients by providing evidence-based tobacco use care during a particularly relevant clinical encounter. METHODS: To improve cigarette smoking cessation care delivery and relapse prevention in this setting, this protocol paper seeks to provide a framework for adapting Taking Texas Tobacco Free, a comprehensive, evidence-based tobacco-free workplace program, to lung cancer screening centers. The adapted program, Project SWITCH, will be developed through a formative evaluation process with center stakeholders to identify proactive adaptations to programming based on center-specific contexts. Project SWITCH is expected to be implemented in at least nine lung cancer screening centers in Texas and will be disseminated more broadly to centers statewide. RESULTS: Quantitative and qualitative data will be collected from multiple stakeholders throughout the intervention using a convergent parallel mixed methods design to make additional program adaptations and comprehensively evaluate the achievement of the project's implementation and dissemination goals. CONCLUSIONS: Results from this project's implementation and dissemination phases are expected to reduce lung cancer morbidity and mortality in Texas by providing an evidence-based, sustainable framework for tobacco-free workplace programs in this specific setting that improves cancer prevention and control practices.","journal":"Methods and Protocols","year":2025,"id":569470,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9459,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":530070,"name":"Maggie Britton","orcid":"0000-0003-3561-1832","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":503474,"name":"Isabel Martinez Leal","orcid":"0000-0002-0073-339X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":503473,"name":"Matthew Taing","orcid":"0000-0002-5857-3683","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":305419,"name":"Tzu-An Chen","orcid":"0000-0003-4312-7258","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":288238,"name":"Lisa M. Lowenstein","orcid":"0000-0003-3481-5980","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":649881,"name":"Jennifer A. Minnix","orcid":"0000-0001-6017-6735","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":397959,"name":"Lorraine R. Reitzel","orcid":"0000-0002-7165-5720","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1283190,"name":"Ammar D. Siddiqi","orcid":"0000-0001-5639-2646","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":40,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:56:59.652443Z","pmid":"40700308","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}