Review: advice from doctors and nurses, behavioural interventions, nicotine replacement treatment, and several pharmacological treatments increase smoking cessation rates
Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: Lancaster T, Stead L, Silagy C, et al, for the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Review Group. Effectiveness of interventions to help people stop smoking: findings from the Cochrane Library. BMJ2000 Aug 5; 321 : 355 –8. [OpenUrl][1][FREE Full Text][2] QUESTION: Are smoking cessation interventions effective? Reviews were identified by searching the Cochrane Library . Reviews were selected if they included randomised controlled trials of interventions to reduce or prevent tobacco use that had ≥6 months of follow up with outcomes of sustained abstinence or point prevalence stop rates. Extracted data included interventions and outcomes. 20 systematic reviews were available in the Cochrane Library . 1 review (including 31 trials and >26 000 participants who were smokers) examined simple advice given by doctors during routine care and showed that the intervention increased quit rates (weighted odds ratio [OR] 1.7, 95% CI 1.5 to 2.0). Another review of individual counselling given by nurses also showed increased stopping rates. Behavioural interventions for smoking cessation, in the forms of … [1]: {openurl}?query=rft.jtitle%253DBMJ%26rft.stitle%253DBMJ%26rft.aulast%253DLancaster%26rft.auinit1%253DT.%26rft.volume%253D321%26rft.issue%253D7257%26rft.spage%253D355%26rft.epage%253D358%26rft.atitle%253DRegular%2Breview%253A%2BEffectiveness%2Bof%2Binterventions%2Bto%2Bhelp%2Bpeople%2Bstop%2Bsmoking%253A%2Bfindings%2Bfrom%2Bthe%2BCochrane%2BLibrary%26rft_id%253Dinfo%253Adoi%252F10.1136%252Fbmj.321.7257.355%26rft_id%253Dinfo%253Apmid%252F10926597%26rft.genre%253Darticle%26rft_val_fmt%253Dinfo%253Aofi%252Ffmt%253Akev%253Amtx%253Ajournal%26ctx_ver%253DZ39.88-2004%26url_ver%253DZ39.88-2004%26url_ctx_fmt%253Dinfo%253Aofi%252Ffmt%253Akev%253Amtx%253Actx [2]: /lookup/ijlink?linkType=FULL&journalCode=bmj&resid=321/7257/355&atom=%2Febmental%2F4%2F1%2F16.atom
Source: Evidence-Based Mental Health
DOI: 10.1136/ebmh.4.1.16
Author: Roger Luckmann
Institution: University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1985327580