This review looked at whether there were ways to improve stop-smoking treatment in primary care to help more people to quit smoking.
Are there ways to improve stop-smoking treatment in primary care to help more people to quit smoking?
To assess the effectiveness of community interventions for reducing the prevalence of smoking.
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Community interventions for reducing smoking among adults
This review assessed the effectiveness of interventions by community pharmacy personnel to assist clients to stop smoking. Click on the link below to access review.
Community pharmacy personnel interventions for smoking cessation
To determine the effectiveness of interventions aiming to reduce exposure of children to ETS.
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Family and carer smoking control programmes for reducing children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
To determine the effectiveness of nursing-delivered smoking cessation interventions.
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Nursing interventions for smoking cessation
The aims of this review were to assess the effectiveness of advice from physicians in promoting smoking cessation; to compare minimal interventions by physicians with more intensive interventions; to assess the effectiveness of various aids to advice in promoting smoking cessation, and to determine the effect of anti-smoking advice on disease-specific and all-cause mortality.
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Physician advice for smoking cessation
To determine whether competitions such as quit and win can deliver higher long-term quit rates than baseline community quit rates.
Competitions for smoking cessation
To review all randomized controlled trials of behavioural interventions in schools to prevent children (aged 5 to12) and adolescents
(aged 13 to18) starting smoking.
School-based programmes for preventing smoking