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Enhancing partner support to improve smoking cessation.
Babalola Faseru1, Kimber P Richter, Taneisha S Scheuermann
1Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS, USA, 66160.
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
|August 14, 2018
Summary
Partner support interventions do not significantly improve long-term smoking cessation rates. Most studies failed to demonstrate increased partner support, suggesting a need for better behavioral interventions to enhance cessation success.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Behavioral Science
- Addiction Medicine
Background:
- Smoking cessation programs exist, but partner support may enhance abstinence.
- Individual support from partners, family, or friends can encourage smokers to quit.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate if enhancing one-to-one partner support improves smoking cessation outcomes.
- Comparison against interventions without a partner-support component.
Main Methods:
- Included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of smokers aiming to quit.
- Searched Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group Register, CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO up to April 2018.
- Primary outcome: smoking abstinence at 6-12 months follow-up.
Main Results:
- 14 RCTs (3370 participants) were included. Pooled risk ratio for abstinence was 0.97 (6-9 months) and 1.04 (≥12 months).
- Most interventions did not demonstrate increased partner support.
- Overall evidence quality was rated as low due to risk of bias and indirectness.
Conclusions:
- Interventions to enhance partner support do not appear to increase long-term smoking abstinence.
- Future research should focus on developing interventions that effectively increase partner support.
- Small-scale studies are needed to test new behavioral interventions before large trials.
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