Overview / Research screener / Smoking cessation
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Smoking cessation
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Not a regulated product. No approval pathway exists for this intervention in any market, and none is required to practise it.
1 randomized trial (1,031 people, 26 weeks). It found no effect on its main endpoint.
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main endpoints improvedno effectworsenedmixedobservationalanother intervention, contextsize not reported
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Repeatability is whether the same person measured twice gets the same number. It is not statistical significance. It informs study or protocol design only, never advice for a person.
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Every study (12)
- T7 Zhao 2025 Mobile instant messaging supported brief physical exercise intervention for smoking cessation: a community-based, cluster randomised controlled trial doi:10.1136/thorax-2025-224130
- T5 Mayor 2016 Quitting smoking reduces mortality at any age, study of over 70s finds doi:10.1136/bmj.i6468
- T5 Kenfield 2008 Smoking and Smoking Cessation in Relation to Mortality in Women doi:10.1001/jama.299.17.2037
- T5 Zhao 2015 Smoking, smoking cessation, and 7-year mortality in a cohort of Thai adults doi:10.1186/s12963-015-0062-0
- T5 Chen 2026 Longevity-associated FOXO3 genotype mitigates the risk of lung cancer after smoking cessation: a prospective cohort study doi:10.21037/tlcr-2026-0267
- T5 Lam 2002 Smoking, Quitting, and Mortality in a Chinese Cohort of Retired Men doi:10.1016/s1047-2797(01)00258-7
- T5 Cihan 2026 Long-term telephone follow-up of older adults attending a smoking cessation clinic in Türkiye: a retrospective cohort study doi:10.1186/s12875-026-03550-9
- TX Tanoue 2008 Smoking and Smoking Cessation in Relation to Mortality in Women doi:10.1016/s8756-3452(08)79179-5
- TX Wilson 2000 Effect of Smoking Cessation on Mortality After Myocardial Infarction: Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies doi:10.1001/archinte.160.7.939
- TX Smoking cessation reduces mortality (2008) Smoking cessation reduces mortality doi:10.1097/01.nurse.0000342024.09010.81
- TX &NA; 2014 NIH Site on Quitting Smoking for Older Adults doi:10.1097/01.cot.0000452604.05538.3e
- TX Pierce 2022 Quitting Smoking by Age 35 Years, A Goal for Reducing Mortality doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.31487