Data collection and questionnaire design: Smoking cessation in adults

Data collection and questionnaire design are significant to both researchers and clinical practitioners in the field of adult smoking cessation. Unfortunately, minimal standards for data collection are typically neglected by public service and proprietary programs and are all too often neglected by researchers as well. The purpose of the current paper is not to recommend new standards in this area. Instead, discussion will focus upon some existing standards that profitably can be applied in research and public service settings.