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Review: self help interventions alone minimally increase smoking cessation rates

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.2.3.80

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    Lancaster T, Stead LF. Self-help interventions for smoking cessation. (Cochrane Review, latest version 26 Aug 1998.) In: Cochrane Library. Oxford: Update Software.

    Question How effective are self help smoking cessation interventions?

    Data sources

    Studies were identified by searching the Tobacco Addiction Review Group Register (which includes studies identified from Medline, PsycLIT, Dissertation Abstracts Online, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, Social Citations Index, and Social Science Citations Index) using the terms self help, manual, and booklet; and bibliographies of previous reviews.

    Study selection

    Randomised or quasi-randomised controlled trials were selected if they had ≥6 months follow up and if ≥1 treatment arm involved a self help intervention without repeated face to face contact with a therapist. Self help interventions had to involve a structured programme for quitting. Studies of pregnant women were excluded.

    Data extraction

    Data were extracted on the study population, method of randomisation, type of intervention, follow …

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    Footnotes

    • Sources of funding: National Health Service and Imperial Cancer Research Fund.

    • For correspondence: Mrs Lindsay Stead, ICRF General Practice Research Group, Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Institute of Health Sciences, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK. Fax +44 (0)1865 227137.

    • A modified version of this abstract appears in ACP Journal Club and Evidence-Based Mental Health.