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Enhancing partner support to improve smoking cessation.

Eal Whan Park¹, Fred G Tudiver, Thomas Campbell

¹Department of FamilyMedicine,Medical College of Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea, South. ewpark@kornet.net.

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Partner support interventions did not significantly increase smoking cessation rates in this review. More research with larger samples is needed to determine the impact of partner support on long-term abstinence.

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Area of Science:

Public Health
Behavioral Science
Addiction Medicine

Background:

Smoking cessation programs exist, but long-term abstinence remains challenging.
Partner involvement in cessation efforts may improve outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate if enhanced partner support, as an adjunct to smoking cessation programs, increases quit rates.
To quantify the effect size of partner support interventions on smoking cessation.

Main Methods:

Systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of smoking cessation interventions.
Included studies compared interventions with and without partner support components.
Follow-up duration was at least six months; abstinence was the primary outcome.

Main Results:

Thirteen studies (>2000 participants) met inclusion criteria; biochemical validation of abstinence was limited.
Pooled risk ratios for self-reported abstinence showed no significant increase at 6-9 months (0.99) or 12+ months (1.04).
Most studies did not report a significant increase in partner support in intervention groups.

Conclusions:

Interventions to enhance partner support did not demonstrably increase smoking cessation rates in this review.
Evidence suggests these interventions may not effectively increase partner support.
Further large-scale studies are required to clarify the role of partner support in smoking cessation.