ArticleTobacco control2009
Using a quitline plus low-cost nicotine replacement therapy to help disadvantaged smokers to quit.
Article in Tobacco control, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01156610 (Tobacco Treatment Outreach to Reduce Disparities for Primary Care Populations), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Tobacco Treatment Outreach to Reduce Disparities for Primary Care Populations
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Telephone counselling for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Nicotine replacement therapy versus control for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Interventions for recruiting smokers into cessation programmes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Effectiveness of mobile smoking cessation treatment with 1-week nicotine replacement therapy sampling at outdoor smoking hotspots: A cluster randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Trial
- Helping Smokers with Severe Mental Illness Who Do Not Want to Quit.Substance use & misuse · 2018Trial
- Impact of Educational Attainment on Health Outcomes in Moderate to Severe CKD.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2016Trial
- Effectiveness of a telephone delivered and a face-to-face delivered counseling intervention for smoking cessation in patients with coronary heart disease: a 6-month follow-up.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2014Trial
- Evaluating the effect of access to free medication to quit smoking: a clinical trial testing the role of motivation.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2014Trial
- Expanding population-level interventions to help more low-income smokers quit: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Article
- Differential Relationship between Tobacco Control Policies and U.S. Adult Current Smoking by Poverty.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- A cross-sectional survey of experts' opinions about the relative effectiveness of tobacco control strategies for the general population versus disadvantaged groups: what do we choose in the absence of evidence?BMC public health · 2013Article
- Australian smokers increasingly use help to quit, but number of attempts remains stable: findings from the International Tobacco Control Study 2002-09.Australian and New Zealand journal of public health · 2011Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo trial an intervention in a real-life setting to motivate low-income smokers to try to quit. The intervention under trial was the addition of subsidised nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) to a standard population quitline service.
designParticipants were low-income smokers, recruited "cold" via either a letter in the mail or a flyer inserted in a local newspaper. The intervention group received the usual service of multisession counselling from the quitline plus access to heavily subsidised NRT. A comparison group received the usual quitline service only. Participants were followed up at 3, 6, and 12 months. Trial participants were also compared with a sample of general callers to the quitline.
resultsThe offer of subsidised NRT recruited more than twice as many low-income smokers than the offer of the cessation service alone (intervention group n = 1000; comparison group n = 377). 63% were first-time callers to the quitline. Intervention respondents showed higher levels of nicotine dependence than comparison group respondents. Comparisons of quitting data were confounded by the differences in the respondents at baseline. 73.5% of smokers in the intervention group tried to quit compared to 61.0% in the comparison group. Unadjusted quit rates were higher in the intervention group than in the comparison group at 3 months and 6 months but not at 12 months.
conclusionsDisadvantaged smokers were easily engaged to call the quitline, particularly when offered subsidised NRT. Disadvantaged smokers using the quitline, with and without subsidised NRT, achieved cessation outcomes comparable to other studies of "mainstream" smokers.
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