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    Cochrane reviews: community interventions

    There have been a large number of Cochrane reviews of smoking cessation interventions.

    As these are an important resource for the smoking cessation field, we have collected all the reviews covering community interventions and uploaded them so they can be viewed on our site.

    Please click on the links below to find out more about the Cochrane reviews that deal with community interventions.


    Strategies to improve smoking cessation rates in primary care

    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?

    Community interventions for reducing smoking among adults

    To assess the effectiveness of community interventions for reducing the prevalence of smoking.

    Click on link below to access review.
    Community interventions for reducing smoking among adults

    Community pharmacy personnel interventions for smoking cessation

    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



    Nursing interventions for smoking cessation

    To determine the effectiveness of nursing-delivered smoking cessation interventions.

    Click on link below to access review:
    Nursing interventions for smoking cessation

    Physician advice 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.

    Click on link below to access review:
    Physician advice for smoking cessation

    Competitons 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

    School-based programmes for preventing smoking

    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