Review: self help interventions alone minimally increase smoking cessation rates

  • Martin, Lynn RN, MScN

  • Tobacco Use Prevention Promoter Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth Social and Public Health Services Division Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Lancaster T, Stead LF. Self-help interventions for smoking cessation. (Cochrane Review, latest version 26 Aug 1998.) In: Cochrane Library. Oxford: Update Software.Question How effective are self help smoking cessation interventions?

Sources of funding: National Health Service and Imperial Cancer Research Fund.

For correspondence: Mrs Lindsay Stead, ICRF General Practice Research Group, Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Institute of Health Sciences, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK. Fax +44 (0)1865 227137.

A modified version of this abstract appears in ACP Journal Club and Evidence-Based Mental Health.

Evidence-Based Nursing 2(3):p 80, July 1999.
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