Evaluation of the London Smoking Cessation Transformation Programme: a time-series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

National social marketing campaigns have been shown to promote smoking cessation in England. There is reason to believe that regional and city-wide campaigns can play a valuable role in reducing smoking prevalence over and above any national tobacco control activity. This study aimed to assess the impact of the London Smoking Cessation Transformation Programme, a multi-component citywide smoking cessation programme, on quit attempts and quit success rates.

Design and setting

Interrupted time-series analyses, using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and generalized additive models (GAM) of population trends in the difference between monthly quit attempts and quit success rates among smokers who made a quit attempt in London versus the rest of

SUBMITTER: Jackson SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8247014 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature