However, services operating in deprived communities achieved lower cessation rates than those in more prosperous areas. Conclusions: Well developed, evidence based NHS smoking cessation services, reflecting good practice, are yielding positive outcomes in England. However, most of the data are based on...
In 2013, guidance was issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) that recommended the routine and systematic delivery of cessation support to all smokers using secondary care services, but the prevalence of smoking among those treated in NHS hospitals, and hence the num...
31]. Consistent with findings from a qualitative study of three UK Stop Smoking Services [25], our survey showed that all responding services in England offer NRT to pregnant women as part of their smoking cessation treatment. However
Of these, 271, 169, and 524 Pakistani and Bangladeshi men in the intervention, control, and external control areas tried to stop with the support of the NHS cessation services in the year prior to the intervention (November 2006 to October 2007). The rates of service use were 63/1000 ...
(NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement 2006), interventions gen- erally aim to empower and support people with long-term conditions to understand their own health needs and to make informed choices about care/lifestyle. Brief smoking cessation interventions form an important part of the pub...
Conclusion: NHS stop smoking services have probably made a modest contribution to reducing inequalities in smoking prevalence. To achieve government targets, however, requires both the development of more innovative cessation interventions for the most addicted smokers and action to ensure that other ...
To describe smoking behaviour, motivation to quit and quit rates, and the effect of advice and support for smoking cessation among smokers from more and less disadvantaged socio-economic groups in South Derbyshire, a mixed urban and rural area of central England. Cross-sectional study. A cross-...
(fig 2), and by 1990 male lung cancer mortality, although still high, was decreasing rapidly.8-12 In this paper we relate the UK national trends in smoking, in smoking cessation, and in lung cancer to the contrasting results from two large case-control studies of smoking and lung cancer ...
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REVIEW Cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation and the implications for COPD Michele A Faulkner Tom L Lenz Julie A Stading Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Omaha, NE, USA Abstract: The cost burden of COPD is substantial for patients and families, payers, and society...