Community pharmacy personnel interventions for smoking cessation
Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsPublished 26 January 2004Open access
Hazel Sinclair, Christine Bond, Lindsay F Stead
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The limited number of studies to date suggests that trained community pharmacists, providing a counselling and record keeping support programme for their customers, may have a positive effect on smoking cessation rates.
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The limited number of studies to date suggests that trained community pharmacists, providing a counselling and record keeping support programme for their customers, may have a positive effect on smoking cessation rates. The strength of evidence is limited because only one of the trials showed a statistically significant effect.
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