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
47 Resources Found
| Title: | Exercise interventions for smoking cessation |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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