SynthesisThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews2000
Individual behavioural counselling for smoking cessation.
Synthesis in The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Effects of treatment for tobacco dependence on resting cerebral glucose metabolism.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2010Trial
- A randomised trial of glucose tablets to aid smoking cessation.Psychopharmacology · 2010Trial
- Use of nicotine replacement therapy in socioeconomically deprived young smokers: a community-based pilot randomised controlled trial.Tobacco control · 2006Trial
- A Tablet Based Embodied Conversational Agent to Promote Smoking Cessation among Veterans: A Feasibility Study.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2018Review
- Evidence of lifestyle modification in the management of hypercholesterolemia.Current cardiology reviews · 2013Review
- Medications for substance use disorders.Social work in public health · 2013Review
- Early detection of COPD combined with individualized counselling for smoking cessation: a two-year prospective study.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2010Article
- Tobacco smoking cessation management: integrating varenicline in current practice.Vascular health and risk management · 2008Review
- Treatment of tobacco dependence: integrating recent progress into practice.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2007Review
- A review of smoking cessation interventions.MedGenMed : Medscape general medicine · 2005Review
- Effectiveness of interventions to help people stop smoking: findings from the Cochrane Library.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2000Review
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Abstract
backgroundIndividual counselling from a smoking cessation specialist may help smokers to make a successful attempt to stop smoking.
objectivesThe objective of the review is to determine the effects of individual counselling. SEARCH STRATEGY: We searched the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group trials register for studies with counsel* in any field. Date of the most recent search: October 1998. SELECTION CRITERIA: Randomised or quasi-randomised trials with at least one treatment arm consisting of face to face individual counselling from a health care worker not involved in routine clinical care. The outcome was smoking cessation at follow-up at least six months after the start of counselling. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Both reviewers extracted data. The intervention and population, method of randomisation and completeness of follow-up were recorded. MAIN
resultsWe identified eleven trials. Ten compared individual counselling to a minimal intervention, two compared two intensities of counselling, and one compared individual counselling to group therapy. Individual counselling was more effective than control. The odds ratio for successful smoking cessation was 1.55 (95% confidence interval 1.27 to 1.90). There was no evidence that more intensive counselling was more effective than brief counselling (odds ratio 1.17, 95% confidence interval 0.59 to 2.34). There was no evidence of a difference in effect between individual counselling and group therapy (odds ratio 1.33, 95% confidence interval 0.83 to 2.13). REVIEWER'S
conclusionsSmoking cessation counselling can assist smokers to quit.
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