Two-month results are predictors of outcome in a smoking cessation program

Medicina clínica
M BarruecoM Dolores Plaza

Abstract

The supportive smoking cessation counseling (SSCC) and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) have been proved to be an effective aid to smoking cessation. The aim of this study was to determine whether the results obtained in a two-month treatment program to helping smokers quit by means of supporting smoking cessation counseling or nicotine replacement therapy included in the routine medical care, can be considered as predictors of success in the long term (one year). A longitudinal and prospective study has been carried out, being included in the program all smoker patients who went a primary or specialist unit (n = 357) during a six-month term. The SSCC was carried out in those patients with a low nicotine dependence (Fagerström test < 7) or those who had not got a preparation stage yet. The NRT was tested in those patients with high nicotine dependence (Fagerström >= 7). 32 patients (9%) of the 357 did not turn up to the established controls,being thus considered as hopeless cases. The one-year study was completed by 177 patients in the SSCC group and 148 in the NRTgroup. Abstinence had been achieved by 39.2% of the SSCC group and by 36.2% of theNRT group 12 months later. Previously, in the SSCC group the observed abstinence a...Continue Reading

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Mar 11, 2020·Frontiers in Psychiatry·Jesús F RoselJuan J Canales

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