Addressing tobacco in Australian alcohol and other drug treatment settings: a cross-sectional survey of staff attitudes and perceived barriers

Table 2 Level of agreement to attitudinal statements regarding the provision of smoking cessation care by staff^a

Statement	Strongly disagree/disagree		Neither agree nor disagree		Strongly agree/agree
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Supportive
A comprehensive range of smoking cessation treatments should be part of usual care	12	3	43	10	388	87
Smoking cessation counselling is as important as counselling about other drugs for clients of this service	52	13	73	16	318	72
Our staff have the organisational support to provide smoking cessation treatments to clients	77	18	110	24	256	58
Unsupportive
Most drug and alcohol clients who smoke are not interested in doing anything about their smoking	155	35	110	25	178	40
Increasing restrictions on smoking in this service would increase client aggression towards staff	220	50	122	28	101	23
Smoking is a personal choice and it is not this service’s role to interfere	245	55	126	28	72	16

^aAttitudinal statements were rated on a 5-point likert-type scale. For analysis purposes responses were grouped as strongly disagree/disagree, neither agree nor disagree, strongly agree/agree. Counts and percentages are presented

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