Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/11512
Appears in Collections:Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport Journal Articles
Peer Review Status: Refereed
Title: The effectiveness of NHS smoking cessation services: A systematic review
Author(s): Bauld, Linda
Bell, Kirsten
McCullough, Lucy
Richardson, Lindsay
Greaves, Lorraine
Contact Email: linda.bauld@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: Deprivation
Gender
NHS stop smoking services
Smoking cessation
Smoking treatment
Systematic review
Physician and patient
Delivery of health care
Smoking cessation programmes Great Britain
Issue Date: Mar-2010
Date Deposited: 25-Mar-2013
Citation: Bauld L, Bell K, McCullough L, Richardson L & Greaves L (2010) The effectiveness of NHS smoking cessation services: A systematic review. Journal of Public Health, 32 (1), pp. 71-82. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdp074
Abstract: Objectives: To analyse evidence on the effectiveness of intensive NHS treatments for smoking cessation in helping smokers to quit. Methods: A systematic review of studies published between 1990 and 2007. Electronic databases were searched for published studies. Unpublished reports were identified from the national research register and experts. Results: Twenty studies were included. They suggest that intensive NHS treatments for smoking cessation are effective in helping smokers to quit. The national evaluation found 4-week carbon monoxide monitoring validated quit rates of 53%, falling to 15% at 1 year. There is some evidence that group treatment may be more effective than one-to-one treatment, and the impact of ‘buddy support' varies based on treatment type. Evidence on the effectiveness of in-patient interventions is currently very limited. Younger smokers, females, pregnant smokers and more deprived smokers appear to have lower short-term quit rates than other groups. Conclusion: Further research is needed to determine the most effective models of NHS treatment for smoking cessation and the efficacy of those models with subgroups. Factors such as gender, age, socio-economic status and ethnicity appear to influence outcomes, but a current lack of diversity-specific analysis of results makes it impossible to ascertain the differential impact of intervention types on particular subpopulations.
DOI Link: 10.1093/pubmed/fdp074
Rights: The publisher does not allow this work to be made publicly available in this Repository. Please use the Request a Copy feature at the foot of the Repository record to request a copy directly from the author. You can only request a copy if you wish to use this work for your own research or private study.
Licence URL(s): http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/under-embargo-all-rights-reserved

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
Bauld_2010_The_effectiveness_of_NHS_smoking_cessation.pdfFulltext - Published Version147.62 kBAdobe PDFUnder Embargo until 3000-01-01    Request a copy

Note: If any of the files in this item are currently embargoed, you can request a copy directly from the author by clicking the padlock icon above. However, this facility is dependent on the depositor still being contactable at their original email address.



This item is protected by original copyright



Items in the Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.

The metadata of the records in the Repository are available under the CC0 public domain dedication: No Rights Reserved https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

If you believe that any material held in STORRE infringes copyright, please contact library@stir.ac.uk providing details and we will remove the Work from public display in STORRE and investigate your claim.