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Alternatives include individual counselling b

Why?

  • Individual counselling helps smokers quit. b
  • However it is not clearly more effective than brief advice or group sessions. d

Individual counselling helps smokers quit

Patient Treatment Comparison Outcome CER OR
(95% CI)		 NNT
(95% CI)
smoker b individual counselling minimal contact sustained smoking cessation
at 12 months		 10% 1.55
(1.27 to 1.90)		 21
(13 to 41)
 

 

Expiry date: November 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball , N   Shenker
Reviewer   S   Straus
CAT Writers   CJ   Wotton , N   Shenker , B   Phillips , CM   Ball