Additional behavioural support as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation
Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsPublished 12 October 2015
Lindsay F Stead, Priya Koilpillai, Tim Lancaster
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Evaluated the effect of increasing the intensity of behavioural support for people using smoking cessation medications, and to assess whether there are different effects depending on the type of pharmacotherapy, or the amount of support in each condition.
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Providing behavioural support in person or via telephone for people using pharmacotherapy to stop smoking has a small but important effect. Increasing the amount of behavioural support is likely to increase the chance of success by about 10% to 25%, based on a pooled estimate from 47 trials. Subgroup analysis suggests that the incremental benefit from more support is similar over a range of levels of baseline support.
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63 Citations2011Sharon M. Hall, Gary L. Humfleet +4 more
Brief contact with providers can increase abstinence during treatment and CBT may increase long-term abstinence after extended treatment is terminated.
BMJEffect of offering different levels of support and free nicotine replacement therapy via an English national telephone quitline: randomised controlled trial
61 Citations2012James L. Ferguson, Graeme Docherty +6 more
Offering free nicotine replacement therapy or additional (proactive) counselling to standard helpline support had no additional effect on smoking cessation.
Drug and Alcohol DependenceMechanisms of change in extended cognitive behavioral treatment for tobacco dependence☆
60 Citations2010Peter S. Hendricks, Kevin Delucchi +1 more
Extended CBT increased abstinence self-efficacy over the first 52 weeks postcessation and was positively associated with 7-day point prevalence abstinence at week 64 while controlling for treatment condition, and eliminated the independent effect of treatment condition on abstinence.
Cancer Causes & ControlEffectiveness of pharmacist counseling combined with nicotine replacement therapy: a pragmatic randomized trial with 6,987 smokers
59 Citations2010Mary Jean Costello, Beth Sproule +4 more
Cessation outcomes are higher among participants completing three intervention sessions compared to one session; however, many do not return for follow-up sessions.
American Journal of Public HealthTelephone support as an adjunct to transdermal nicotine in smoking cessation.
58 Citations1997Harry A. Lando, Sharon J. Rolnick +4 more
Abstinence results obtained in this program were comparable to those obtained with more extensive counseling, however, there was no evidence of benefit from telephone support beyond the initial physician-led group orientation session.
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