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Review: existing evidence does not support behavioural or other specific interventions to prevent smoking relapse

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.9.4.109

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    Lancaster T, Hajek P, Stead LF, et al. Prevention of relapse after quitting smoking: a systematic review of trials. Arch Intern Med 2006;166:828–35.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science

    Q Are smoking relapse prevention interventions effective in people who have recently quit smoking?

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    Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Review Group register of trials, which included the results of searches of Medline, PsycINFO, and conference abstracts (all to Aug 2005).

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    randomised or quasi-randomised controlled trials of participants who had quit smoking on their own, were in enforced abstinence, or were in cessation programmes; had ⩾6 months of follow up; and compared relapse prevention …

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    • For correspondence: Dr T Lancaster, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. tim.lancaster{at}dphpc.ox.ac.uk

    • Source of funding: UK National Health Service.