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Smoking Cessation: Attributes of Successful Interventions

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Preventing Disease

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Abstract

The strong association between cigarette smoking and increased morbidity and mortality from respiratory, cardiovascular, and neoplastic diseases is well documented.1 The positive effect of smoking cessation on reducing excess morbidity and mortality due to smoking has also been established. Given the high prevalence of cigarette smoking, even minor improvements in smoking cessation rates have the potential to produce major health benefits.

The deleterious effects of inhaling tobacco smoke, either firsthand or secondhand, have been well documented, but caregivers are often frustrated by the infrequency with which patients adhere to recommendations to quit smoking. There is an abundance of literature on the outcome of smoking cessation programs, but the results vary considerably. Meta-analysis is a method of combining the results of numerous studies, in accordance with predetermined criteria of eligibility, in order to answer specific questions. The method lends itself especially well to determining which specific characteristics of smoking cessation programs are associated with higher rates of success. This analysis should prove valuable to health care providers and planners in attaining higher success rates and lowered frustration levels for all concerned.

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  1. The Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children, Dalhousie University, B3J 3G9, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Richard B. Goldbloom M.D. (Professor of Pediatrics) (Professor of Pediatrics)

  2. The Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 02139, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Robert S. Lawrence M.D. (Charles S. Davidson Associate Professor of Medicine, Chief of Medicine) (Charles S. Davidson Associate Professor of Medicine, Chief of Medicine)

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Kottke, T.E., Battista, R.N., DeFriese, G.H., Brekke, M.L. (1990). Smoking Cessation: Attributes of Successful Interventions. In: Goldbloom, R.B., Lawrence, R.S. (eds) Preventing Disease. Frontiers of Primary Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3280-3_9

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