The English smoking treatment services: short‐term outcomes

Abstract

These results obtained from routine services support those obtained from clinical trials and confirm the effectiveness of counselling combined with pharmacotherapies to assist smokers to quit in the short term. However, the relative effectiveness of group interventions raises questions about why one-to-one counselling is used much more commonly. The importance of socio-demographic and nicotine-related dependency factors also suggests that local service targets for smoking cessation need to take account of the social distribution of these characteristics.