Article does not prove that smoking cessation has an "effect" on mental health.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Does smoking cessation result in improved mental health? A comparison of regression modelling and propensity score matching.BMJ open · 2015
   Trial
2. Risk of depressive disorders after tobacco smoking cessation: a retrospective cohort study in Fukuoka, Japan.BMJ open · 2019
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Authors' reply to Sanderson and colleagues.2014
• Comment on
  Change in mental health after smoking cessation: systematic review and meta-analysis.2014

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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