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SynthesisBMC family practice2016

A systematic review and narrative summary of family-based smoking cessation interventions to help adults quit smoking.

Gill Hubbard, Trish Gorely, Gozde Ozakinci, Rob Polson, Liz Forbat

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Synthesis in BMC family practice, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  16. Involving Family and Social Support Systems in Tobacco Cessation Treatment for Patients With Cancer.Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN · 2021
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  17. Smoking During Pregnancy Among Immigrant Women With Same-Origin and Swedish-Born Partners.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Gill HubbardSchool of Health Sciences, University of Stirling, Highland Campus, Centre for Health Science, Old Perth Road, Inverness, UK. gill.hubbard@stir.ac.uk.
Trish GorelySchool of Health Sciences, University of Stirling, Highland Campus, Centre for Health Science, Old Perth Road, Inverness, UK.
Gozde OzakinciSchool of Medicine, Medical and Biological Sciences Building, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
Rob PolsonHighland Health Sciences Library, University of Stirling, Highland Campus, Centre for Health Science, Inverness, UK.
Liz ForbatAustralian Catholic University, Canberra, Australia.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSmoking is the most significant preventable cause of morbidity and early mortality in the world. The family is an influential context in which smoking behaviour occurs.

methodsA systematic review and narrative summary of family-based interventions to help adults quit smoking was conducted.

resultsEight controlled trials were included. Risk of bias was high. The smoking-related outcome of the intervention was self-reported smoking status/abstinence, validated by objective measures (including saliva thiocynate or breath carbon monoxide). Follow-up ranged from 6 weeks to 5 years. The main target groups were: pregnant women (1), pregnant women who smoked (2), men at risk of cardiovascular disease (2), adult smokers (1), parents who smoked (1) and couples who both smoked (1). Interventions included family members but most did not go further by drawing on family, systemic or relational theories to harness the influence of family on smoking behaviour. Only three studies directly compared the effects on smoking behaviour of a family-based (i.e., interventions that involve a member of the family) versus an individual-based (i.e., interventions that use behaviour change techniques that focus on the individual) intervention. None of these studies found significant differences between groups on the smoking behaviour of the main target group.

conclusionsWe have yet to develop family-based smoking cessation interventions that harness or re-direct the influence of family members on smoking behaviour in a positive way. Thus, it is likely that individualised-approaches to smoking cessation will prevail.

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Family TherapySmoking PreventionAdultControlled Clinical Trials as TopicHealth BehaviorHumansSmoking CessationTreatment FailureFamilyIntervention studiesSmoking cessationSystematic review

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PMID27342987
PMCPMC4921023

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