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1. Overall Goal and Purpose This project aims to promote and enrich smoking cessation advising (short-term intervention) with healthcare providers at healthcare facilities in Kumamoto Prefecture, centrally in organizations connected to the applicant (Hisamitsu Omori, Kumamoto University) and collaborating research institutions, such as the Japanese Red Cross Society's Kumamoto Health Administration Center. This project will train advisors in the treatment of tobacco dependency to build and strengthen the network of doctors and healthcare professionals employed at health examination facilities, mainly those in Kumamoto and organizations of which the applicant is a member, and to improve those healthcare professionals' approach to tobacco dependency treatment. Early in the first year of the project, we will establish and strengthen said network and obtain permission for our research from the ethics committee. Afterwards, we will conduct a survey of the status of smoking cessation support provided in Kumamoto health examination facilities and collect data from the start of the research period (baseline data). Healthcare professionals at health examination facilities will undergo training to become advisors in the treatment of tobacco dependency, with those completing training beginning tobacco cessation support in their health examination facilities. We will conduct two evaluations, one each at the middle and end of the research period, and compare the results. We will also compare results to a control group of non-participants. We will then publish and disseminate results.