ArticleInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2006
Smoking cessation at the workplace: 1 year success of short seminars.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Workplace interventions for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Weight gain in smokers after quitting cigarettes: meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2012Pooled it
- Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking - A randomised clinical trial.Tobacco control · 2019Trial
- The effectiveness of Allen Carr's method for smoking cessation: A systematic review.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2023Review
- Feasibility of a Stop Smoking Program for Healthcare Workers in an Italian Hospital: Econometric Analysis in a Total Worker Health® Approach.Annals of global health · 2023Article
- The Effectiveness of a Smoking Cessation Initiative Among Employees in a Textile Factory.Turkish thoracic journal · 2021Article
- The effectiveness of the Allen Carr smoking cessation training in companies tested in a quasi-experimental design.BMC public health · 2014Article
- [The Fetal Tobacco Syndrome - A statement of the Austrian Societies for General- and Family Medicine (ÖGAM), Gynecology and Obstetrics (ÖGGG), Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (ÖGHMP), Pediatrics and Adolescence Medicine (ÖGKJ) as well as Pneumology (ÖGP)].Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2012Review
- Workplace tobacco cessation program in India: A success story.Indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2009Article
- Managing smoking cessation: Article skips over weaknesses of nicotine replacement.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007Article
- Talking parents, healthy teens: a worksite-based program for parents to promote adolescent sexual health.Preventing chronic disease · 2006Article
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Abstract
objectivesIn search of less time-consuming methods of smoking cessation Allen Carr' seminars performed at workplaces in Austria were evaluated.
methodsOf all the 357 smokers attending a seminar in summer 2002, 308 (86%), consented to participate in a repeated health survey, including the SF-36 questionnaire. After 3 months 268 (87%) gave computer-aided telephone interviews and 223 (72%) after 1 year. Analysis by logistic regression was done separately for males and females.
resultsThe 1-year quit rate was 40% (worst case assumption) to 55% (best estimate). In 96% of quitters an intensive counseling for 6 h without pharmaceutical aid thereafter was sufficient to maintain abstinence for 12 months. A long smoking history or many earlier unsuccessful attempts to quit did not predict failure. The risk of relapse was found higher in young men with a high number of pack-years and in women with good physical fitness but high Fagerstroem score and financial reasons for the intention to quit smoking. While an average weight gain of 3 kg in males was not associated with failure to quit smoking, we found the highest weight gain (4 kg) in females in the group abstinent at 3 months but smoking again at 12 months. In all participants subjective life quality scored by SF-36 improved. In quitters perception of general health improved more.
conclusionsGroup counseling at the workplace was found to be an efficient method of smoking cessation, capable of increasing subjective life quality and health and to smooth the way to smoke-free enterprises.
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