Trial reportNicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2013
Enhancing tobacco quitline effectiveness: identifying a superior pharmacotherapy adjuvant.
Trial report in Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 30 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Improving the Population-Wide Effectiveness of U.S. Tobacco Cessation Quitlines
Helping the Poor Quit Smoking: Specialized Quitlines and Meeting Basic Needs
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- Korean Clinical Practice Guideline of Korean Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (KSRNT) and National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency (NECA) on Treatment of Tobacco Use 2024.Journal of Korean medical science · 2025Guideline
- Different doses, durations and modes of delivery of nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Cost-Effectiveness of Community-Based Tobacco Dependence Treatment Interventions: Initial Findings of a Systematic Review.Preventing chronic disease · 2019Pooled it
- Interventions to increase adherence to medications for tobacco dependence.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Additional behavioural support as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Telephone counselling for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Different doses, durations and modes of delivery of nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Consideration of sex in clinical trials of transdermal nicotine patch: a systematic review.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2014Pooled it
- Tobacco Quitline Retreatment Interventions Among Adults With Socioeconomic Disadvantage: A Factorial Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Leveling the Playing Field: Mailing Pharmacotherapy to Medicaid Members Who Smoke.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Trial
- Effect of varenicline directly observed therapy versus varenicline self-administered therapy on varenicline adherence and smoking cessation in methadone-maintained smokers: a randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Trial
- Predictors of adherence to nicotine replacement therapy: Machine learning evidence that perceived need predicts medication use.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Trial
- Quitting Failure and Success With and Without Using Medication: Latent Classes of Abstinence and Adherence to Nicotine Monotherapy, Combination Therapy, and Varenicline.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019Trial
- Impact of a Smoking Cessation Quitline in Vietnam: Evidence Base and Future Directions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Trial
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Optimized Smoking Treatment Delivered in Primary Care.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2018Trial
- Can we increase smokers' adherence to nicotine replacement therapy and does this help them quit?Psychopharmacology · 2018Trial
- Comparative effectiveness of intervention components for producing long-term abstinence from smoking: a factorial screening experiment.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2016Trial
- Comparative Effectiveness of Post-Discharge Strategies for Hospitalized Smokers: study protocol for the Helping HAND 2 randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2015Trial
- 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
- Smoking Cessation Adjuncts Are Cost Effective Prior to Elective Revascularization.Annals of vascular surgery · 2026Article
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10 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
introductionTelephone tobacco quitlines are effective and are widely used, with more than 500,000 U.S. callers in 2010. This study investigated the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of 3 different quitline enhancements: combination nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), longer duration of NRT, and counseling to increase NRT adherence.
methodsIn this study, 987 quitline callers were randomized to a combination of quitline treatments in a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design: NRT duration (2 vs. 6 weeks), NRT type (nicotine patch only vs. patch plus nicotine gum), and standard 4-call counseling (SC) versus SC plus medication adherence counseling (MAC). The primary outcome was 7-day point-prevalence abstinence (PPA) at 6 months postquit in intention-to-treat (ITT) analyses.
resultsCombination NRT for 6 weeks yielded the highest 6-month PPA rate (51.6%) compared with 2 weeks of nicotine patch (38.4%), odds ratios [OR] = 1.71 (95% confidence interval [CI]:1.20-2.45). A similar result was found for 2 weeks of combination NRT (48.2%), OR = 1.49 (95% CI: 1.04-2.14) but not for 6 weeks of nicotine patch alone (46.2%), OR = 1.38 (95% CI: 0.96-1.97). The MAC intervention effect was nonsignificant. Cost analyses showed that the 2-week combination NRT group had the lowest cost per quit ($442 vs. $464 for 2-week patch only, $505 for 6-week patch only, and $675 for 6-week combination NRT).
conclusionsCombination NRT for 2 or 6 weeks increased 6-month abstinence rates by 10% and 13%, respectively, over rates produced by 2 weeks of nicotine patch when offered with quitline counseling. A 10% improvement would potentially yield an additional 50,000 quitters annually, assuming 500,000 callers to U.S. quitlines per year.
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