Effectiveness of Very Brief Advice on Tobacco Cessation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Very brief advice (VBA; ≤ 3 min) on quitting is practical and scalable during brief medical interactions with patients who smoke. This study aims to synthesize the effectiveness of VBA for smoking cessation and summarize the implementation strategies.

Methods

We searched randomized controlled trials aiming at tobacco abstinence and comparing VBA versus no smoking advice or no contact from Medline, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, PsycInfo databases, six Chinese databases, two trial registries ClinicalTrials.gov and WHO-ICTRP from inception to September 30, 2023. Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluations framework was used to assess the certainty of the evidence of the meta-analytic findings. The outcomes were self-reported long-term tob

SUBMITTER: Cheng CCW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11255176 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature