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Evidence-Based Nursing 2008;11:77; doi:10.1136/ebn.11.3.77
Copyright © 2008 by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & RCN Publishing Company Ltd.

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Review: behavioural interventions promote tobacco cessation in users of smokeless tobacco

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J Ebbert

Dr J Ebbert, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; ebbert.jon@mayo.edu

QUESTION

Do behavioural and pharmacological interventions promote tobacco cessation in users of smokeless tobacco?

REVIEW SCOPE

Studies selected compared a behavioural or pharmacological intervention with a control intervention (usual care, placebo, or a less intensive intervention) or a different intervention for promoting tobacco abstinence in adolescent or adult users of smokeless tobacco (tobacco placed in the mouth and not burned, including moist snuff, chewing tobacco, and betel quid). Outcomes were tobacco abstinence >=6 months after the intervention began. Preferred outcomes were total tobacco abstinence (rather than abstinence from smokeless tobacco alone), biochemical validation (rather than self-reported abstinence), and continuous abstinence (rather than point prevalence) at longest follow-up.

REVIEW METHODS

Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group specialised register, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Medline, CINAHL, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Dissertation Abstracts Online, and Scopus (to Mar 2007); Healthstar, Educational Resources Information Center, National Technical . . . [Full text of this article]

Rachel Regan Boersma

Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA


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