Regular review Effectiveness of interventions to help people stop smoking: findings from the Cochrane Library

Effectiveness of interventions to help people stop smoking: findings from the Cochrane Library.

Occasional review Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients: a systematic review

Abstract Background—An admission to hospital provides an opportunity to help people stop smoking. Individuals may be more open to help at a time of perceived vulnerability, and may find it easier to quit in an environment where smoking is restricted or prohibited. Providing smoking cessation services during hospitalisation may help more people to attempt and sustain an attempt to quit. The purp...

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of computer and other electronic aids for smoking cessation: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND Smoking is harmful to health. On average, lifelong smokers lose 10 years of life, and about half of all lifelong smokers have their lives shortened by smoking. Stopping smoking reverses or prevents many of these harms. However, cessation services in the NHS achieve variable success rates with smokers who want to quit. Approaches to behaviour change can be supplemented with electronic...

Evaluating the effectiveness of peer-based intervention in managing type I diabetes mellitus among children and adolescents: A systematic review

Background: Type 1 diabetes is one of the chronic metabolic disorders among children and adolescents. Peers are also important units in diabetes management through adolescence. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of peer-based intervention in managing type 1 diabetes mellitus among children and adolescents.   Methods: Searching articles published prior to December 2013 in Pub...

Systematic review: smoking cessation intervention strategies for adults and adults in special populations.

BACKGROUND While smoking cessation interventions have been shown to work, questions remain about how to increase their efficacy. PURPOSE To examine strategies for effective tobacco treatment in adults and special populations. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Applied Health (CINAHL), Cochrane Library, Cochrane Clinical Trials Register, Psychological Abstracts, and Sociol...