“…Pharmacists are uniquely positioned to simultaneously provide both smoking cessation services and SCAs to a smoker who wants to quit. A large body of research has been published, which provides evidence that pharmacists see themselves as playing a role in providing cessation support for smokers (Dent, Harris, & Noonan, 2007Dent, Scott, & Lewis, 2004;Kennedy, Giles, Chang, Small, & Edwards, 2002;Maguire, McElnay, & Drummond, 2001;Philbrick, Newkirk, Farris, McDanel, & Horner, 2009;Ragucci & Shrader, 2009;Roth & Westman, 2001;Zillich, Ryan, Adams, Yeager, & Farris, 2002). Increasing the utilisation of pharmacists in smoking cessation activities may have a positive impact on increasing quit smoking rates at population level.…”