Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Quitting Smoking

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of interventions for quitting smoking.
Updated March 2011

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Title:   Exercise interventions for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Exercise is routinely recommended as an aid to smoking cessation by specialist clinics and self-help materials. Fifteen trials have compared an exercise programme plus a smoking cessation programme, or an exercise programme alone, to a cessation program...
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Systematic Reviews of Interventions for Quitting Smoking
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to summaries of the systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of interventions for quitting smoking.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Use of electronic health records to support smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In many countries a large investment is being made in technology to computerize patient medical records. One potential of electronic health records (EHR) is that they could be used to remind clinicians to record tobacco use, to give brief advice to qui...
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Interventions for waterpipe smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Waterpipe smoking is a traditional method of tobacco use, especially in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Its use is now spreading worldwide. It is smoked socially, and is often shared between friends or family at home, or in bars and cafes that provide...
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Cannabinoid type 1 receptor antagonists for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Long-term use of nicotine can upset the endocannabinoid system in the brain, which controls food intake and energy balance. Rimonabant and similar drugs may help smokers to quit by rebalancing the system, which then reduces nicotine and food cravings. W...
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Acupuncture and related interventions for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese therapy, generally using needles to stimulate particular points in the body. Acupuncture is used with the aim of reducing the withdrawal symptoms people experience when they try to quit smoking. Related therapies inc...
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Competitions and incentives for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Smokers may quit while they take part in a competition or receive rewards for quitting, but generally do no better than unassisted quitters once the rewards stop. We found 19 studies (more than 4500 smokers) to include in this review. One trial of 878 s...
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Nicotine receptor partial agonists for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   When people stop smoking they experience cravings to smoke and unpleasant mood changes. Nicotine receptor partial agonists such as varenicline aim to reduce withdrawal symptoms and smoking satisfaction. We found 11 randomized controlled trials of vareni...
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Stage-based interventions for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The transtheoretical model is one of several stage-based theories of behaviour change. It suggests that smokers move through a series of motivational stages before they manage to stop smoking. These are precontemplation (no thoughts of quitting), contem...
Date:   Aug 2010
Title:   Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Different types of hypnotherapy are used to try and help people quit smoking. Some methods try to weaken people's desire to smoke, strengthen their will to quit, or help them concentrate on a 'quit programme'. Trials have used different types and amount...
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   Internet-based interventions for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   More evidence is needed to determine if programmes delivered over the Internet can help people to stop smoking. This review found few trials reporting success rates for stopping smoking after six months or more, and those trials provided only limited ev...
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   Interventions to reduce harm from continued tobacco use
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People who smoke may be unwilling or unable to stop smoking completely. Cutting down the number of cigarettes smoked daily or smoking less damaging products may reduce the harm caused by smoking. It may also be a step towards stopping smoking completely...
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Interventions for preoperative smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Smoking is a well-known risk factor for complications after surgery. Studies of interventions to encourage smokers to stop smoking before their operation show that short- and long-term quitting can be achieved. Evidence from two small trials indicates t...
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Interventions for smoking cessation and reduction in individuals with schizophrenia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with schizophrenia are, very often, heavy smokers. It is uncertain whether treatments that have been shown to help other groups of people to quit smoking are also effective for people with schizophrenia. In this review, we found that bupropion (a...
Date:   Apr 2010
Title:   Reduction versus abrupt cessation in smokers who want to quit
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The standard way to quit smoking is to smoke as normal until a quit day at which point the smoker stops using all cigarettes. Most smokers who try to quit end up relapsing, therefore there are a number of people who have tried to quit abruptly in the pa...
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   Tobacco cessation interventions for young people
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Worldwide, between 80,000 and 100,000 young people start smoking every day and up to one in four UK and American teenagers smoke. Many adolescent tobacco programmes focus on preventing teenagers from starting to smoke, but some programmes have been aime...
Date:   Oct 2009
Title:   Aversive smoking for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Aversion treatments pair undesirable behaviours with negative sensations. In smoking cessation, several approaches have been suggested such as rapid smoking, which requires smokers to take a puff every few seconds to make smoking unpleasant. The results...
Date:   Oct 2009
Title:   Anxiolytics for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Anxiety can contribute to increased smoking, and may be a smoking withdrawal symptom. Medications to reduce anxiety (anxiolytics) may theoretically help smokers trying to quit. There have not been many trials, and none of them showed strong evidence of ...
Date:   Oct 2009
Title:   Antidepressants for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Multiple trials of bupropion (Zyban) for smoking cessation show that it increases the number of successful quit attempts. The side effects of bupropion include insomnia, dry mouth and nausea and rarely (1:1000) seizures and perhaps psychiatric problems,...
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Motivational interviewing for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Motivational interviewing or its variants are widely used to help people stop smoking. It is a counselling technique for helping people to explore and resolve their uncertainties about changing their behaviour. It seeks to avoid an aggressive or confron...
Date:   Jul 2009

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