Smoking cessation: what the health service can do
NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Record ID 31999008345
English
Authors' objectives:
To summarise the research evidence relating to methods of smoking cessation.
Authors' recommendations:
In 1995 tobacco was responsible for 120,000 deaths of people over 35 years of age in the UK and rates of tobacco use are increasing, particularly in young people.
Health professional advice about quitting can achieve cessation rates of 2%. This quit rate can be increased to around 12% in motivated patients by adding nicotine replacement therapy.
Health professionals should systematically identify patients who smoke and encourage and support them to stop.
The use of nicotine replacement therapy should be encouraged in those smokers who are motivated to quit.
Health professionals should encourage and help pregnant women to stop smoking.
Some health professionals would benefit from training in smoking cessation techniques.
Health authorities and other health service commissioners should develop co-ordinated smoking cessation strategies and fund their implementation.
Authors' methods:
Systematic review
Details
Project Status:
Completed
URL for project:
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/em.htm
Year Published:
1998
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
England
MeSH Terms
- Nicotine
- Pregnancy
- Professional-Patient Relations
- Smoking Cessation
Contact
Organisation Name:
University of York
Contact Address:
University of York, York, Y01 5DD, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1904 321040, Fax: +44 1904 321041,
Contact Name:
crd@york.ac.uk
Contact Email:
crd@york.ac.uk
Copyright:
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
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