SynthesisThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews2002
Individual behavioural counselling for smoking cessation.
Synthesis in The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04107753 (The Impact of Brief Motivational Counseling for Smoking Cessation in an Italian Emergency Department), which is not on this map. Cited by 231 papers, 32 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Impact of Brief Motivational Counseling for Smoking Cessation in an Italian Emergency Department: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
231 citing papers in PubMed, 32 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Efficacy of combined varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy compared with varenicline or nicotine replacement therapy alone for smoking cessation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Pooled it
- Interventions for smokeless tobacco use cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Behavioral Interventions for Tobacco Cessation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions for tobacco use cessation in people living with HIV.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review of interventions to increase the use of smoking cessation services for women who smoke during pregnancy.The Australian & New Zealand journal of obstetrics & gynaecology · 2023Pooled it
- What Are the Effective Components of Group-Based Treatment Programs For Smoking Cessation? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Pooled it
- Interventions for waterpipe smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Proactive Referral to Behavioral Smoking Cessation Programs by Healthcare Staff: A Systematic Review.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Pooled it
- Smoking Cessation Interventions in Indigenous North Americans: A Meta-Narrative Systematic Review.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Pooled it
- Automated Digital Interventions and Smoking Cessation: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Relating Efficiency to a Psychological Theory of Intervention Perspective.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
- IntensiveEuropean respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2022Pooled it
- The effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions for socio-economically disadvantaged women: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Smoking Cessation Apps: A Systematic Review of Format, Outcomes, and Features.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Virtual Reality Technology Use in Cigarette Craving and Smoking Interventions (I "Virtually" Quit): Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
- Global burden of active smoking among people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2021Pooled it
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- Behavioural interventions for smoking cessation: an overview and network meta-analysis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Interventions to reduce tobacco use in people experiencing homelessness.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Barriers and Facilitators of Adherence to Nicotine Replacement Therapy: A Systematic Review and Analysis Using the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behaviour (COM-B) Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Quality of smoking cessation advice in guidelines of tobacco-related diseases: An updated systematic review.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2020Pooled it
171 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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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: February 2002. 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 eighteen trials. Fifteen compared individual counselling to a minimal intervention, four compared different types or intensities of counselling. Individual counselling was more effective than control. The odds ratio for successful smoking cessation was 1.62 (95% confidence interval 1.35 to 1.94). We failed to detect a greater effect of intensive counselling compared to brief counselling (odds ratio 0.98, 95% confidence interval 0.61 to 1.56). REVIEWER'S
conclusionsSmoking cessation counselling can assist smokers to quit.
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