ArticleCanadian pharmacists journal : CPJ = Revue des pharmaciens du Canada : RPC2016
Quit rates at 6 months in a pharmacist-led smoking cessation service in Malaysia.
Article in Canadian pharmacists journal : CPJ = Revue des pharmaciens du Canada : RPC, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03597607 (Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness of an Intensive and Abbreviated Individualized Smoking Cessation Support Program Delivered by Pharmacists), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Efficacy and Cost-Effectiveness of an Intensive and Abbreviated Individualized Smoking Cessation Support Program Delivered by Pharmacists: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effectiveness of community health workers involvement in smoking cessation programme: A systematic review.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- Effectiveness of training stop-smoking advisers to deliver cessation support to the UK national proposed standard versus usual care in Malaysia: a two-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Trial
- The outcomes of hybrid virtual consultation for a smoking cessation program in Klang Valley, Malaysia.Tobacco induced diseases · 2025Article
- Systematic literature review of the impact of psychiatric pharmacists.The mental health clinician · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundSmoking cessation clinics have been established in Malaysia since 2004, but wide variations in success rates have been observed. This study aimed to evaluate the proposed pharmacist-led Integrated Quit Smoking Service (IQSS) in Sabah, Malaysia, and identify factors associated with successful smoking cessation.
methodsData from 176 participants were collected from one of the quit-smoking centres in Sabah, Malaysia. Pharmacists, doctors and nurses were involved throughout the study. Any health care provider can refer patients for smoking cessation, and free pharmacotherapy and counselling was provided during the cessation period for up to 3 months. Information on demographic characteristics, smoking behaviours, follow-up and pharmacotherapy were collected. The main outcome measure was the abstinence from smoking, which was verified through carbon monoxide in expired air during the 6-month follow-up.
resultsA 42.6% success rate was achieved in IQSS. Smoking behaviour such as lower cigarette intake and lower Fagerström score were identified as factors associated with success. On top of that, a longer duration of follow-up and more frequent visits were significantly associated with success in quitting smoking.
conclusionCollaboration among health care practitioners should be the main focus, and we need a combination of proven effective modalities in order to create an ideal smoking cessation module.
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