SynthesisDrug and alcohol dependence2015
Smoking cessation interventions for adults aged 50 or older: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 114 citations in OpenAlex.
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- 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
- Efficacy of Motivational Interviewing and Brief Interventions on tobacco use among healthy adults: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Investigacion y educacion en enfermeria · 2022Pooled it
- When primary care providers and smokers meet: a systematic review and metasynthesis.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Systematic review of behavioural smoking cessation interventions for older smokers from deprived backgrounds.BMJ open · 2019Pooled it
- Smoking cessation interventions for potential use in the lung cancer screening setting: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2019Pooled it
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- The Impact of Older Age on Smoking Cessation Outcomes After Standard Advice to Quit.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2023Trial
- Spirometry as a motivator for smoking cessation among patients attending the smoking cessation clinic of Monastir.BMC public health · 2022Trial
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- Sex Differences in Cigarette Smoking Among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Black All of Us Participants: The Relative Importance of Sociodemographic Characteristics and Social Determinants of Health.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- A secondary multivariate decomposition analysis of factors influencing smokeless tobacco cessation across two Global Adult Tobacco Survey waves in India and Bangladesh.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2026Article
- Demographic Trends and Disparities in Cigarette Consumption Among U.S. Older Adults, 2006-2022.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Association of Communication With Smoking Attitudes and Behaviors Among Patients Undergoing Lung Cancer Screening: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.CHEST pulmonary · 2025Article
- Global Trends of Early, Middle, and Late-Onset Lung Cancer From 1990 to 2021: Results From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.Cancer medicine · 2025Article
- Assessment of smoking cessation outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease: A retrospective cohort study from Türkiye.Tobacco induced diseases · 2025Article
- Trends in type 2 diabetes-related deaths and disability-adjusted life years among smoking middle-aged and elderly adults in China, 1990-2021.Tobacco induced diseases · 2025Article
- Expectations and Preferences for Digital Cessation Treatment: Multimethods Study Among Older Adults Who Smoke Cigarettes.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- COPD and Smoking Status - It Does Matter: Characteristics and Prognosis of COPD According to Smoking Status.Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.) · 2024Article
- Implementing Smoking Cessation Telehealth Technologies Within the VHA: Lessons Learned.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe older population size has increased substantially, and a considerable proportion of older adults are cigarette smokers. Quitting smoking is associated with reduced health risk. This review is among the first to quantitatively assess the relative efficacy of types of cessation interventions for smokers aged ≥50 years.
methodsWe conducted searches of the Cochrane Library, Embase, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO to identify smoking cessation studies on adults aged ≥50 years. Twenty-nine randomized clinical trials met the inclusion criteria. Three main types of interventions were identified. We analyzed relative cessation rates or Risk Ratios (RRs) between the type of intervention groups and the control group by fixed- and random-effects meta-analyses at the study level. We conducted a weighted least squares meta-regression of cessation rates on trial and sample characteristics to determine sources of outcome heterogeneity.
resultsFixed-effects analysis showed significant treatment effects for pharmacological (RR=3.18, 95% CI: 1.89-5.36), non-pharmacological (RR=1.80, 95% CI: 1.67-1.94), and multimodal interventions (RR=1.61, 95% CI: 1.41-1.84) compared with control group. Estimations based on meta-regression suggested that pharmacological intervention (mean point prevalence abstinence rate (PPA)=26.10%, CI: 15.20-37.00) resembled non-pharmacological (27.97%, CI: 24.00-31.94), and multimodal interventions (36.64%, CI: 31.66-41.62); and non-pharmacological and multimodal interventions had higher PPAs than the control group (18.80%, CI: 14.48-23.12), after adjusting for a number of trial and sample characteristics.
conclusionsA small number of smoking cessation studies examined smokers aged ≥50 years. Additional research is recommended to determine smoking cessation efficacy for diverse older population groups (e.g., ethnic minorities).
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