Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Quitting Smoking

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for quitting smoking.

Reviewed February 2009

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Title:   Telephone counselling for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Smoking contributes to many health problems including cancers and heart and lung diseases. People trying to quit smoking can be helped with medication or through behavioural support such as specialist counselling and group therapy. Support, information ...
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Silver acetate for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Silver acetate products (gum, lozenge, and spray) produce an unpleasant metallic taste when combined with cigarettes, so they are used as a form of aversion therapy for smoking. However, the review of trials found little evidence to show that silver ace...
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Lobeline for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Lobeline is an alkaloid derived from the leaves of an Indian tobacco plant, and has been widely used in commercial smoking remedies. Its adverse effects include dizziness, nausea, and vomiting, and tablets and pastilles containing Lobeline may lead to t...
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Most people who give up smoking put on weight. This is of concern to many smokers and often puts people off trying to quit or leads to people going back to smoking after managing to quit. A variety of drug and behavioural treatments have been tested to ...
Date:   Nov 2008
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. Eleven trials have compared an exercise programme plus a smoking cessation programme, or an exercise programme alone, to a cessation programm...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Nicotine receptor partial agonists for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The treatment aims to reduce withdrawal symptoms and smoking satisfaction. We found nine randomized controlled trials of varenicline, covering more than 7000 participants. Three of the trials included a direct comparison with bupropion. One trial was a ...
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Enhancing partner support to improve smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Smokers who get support from partners and other people are more likely to quit. Interventions intended to improve the support received have not been shown to increase long-term quit rates compared to a smoking cessation programme without a partner suppo...
Date:   Feb 2008
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:   Apr 2007
Title:   Opioid antagonists for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Nicotine replacement therapy and certain antidepressants help people to stop smoking. However their overall effect is small because nicotine dependence involves many factors including learned behaviour, social settings and the effects of various drugs. ...
Date:   Aug 2006
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 before their operation show that short-term quitting and reduction can be achieved. The effect of intervention on complication rat...
Date:   May 2005
Title:   Smoking cessation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Smoking cessation is the most important treatment for smokers with chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Smoking cessation interventions can be divided into psychosocial interventions (e.g. counselling, self-help materials, and behavioral therapy) and pharm...
Date:   Oct 2003
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