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Last updated: 31 August 2010 - Next update due: 7 September 2010

Research type:

 HTA Technology Assessment Report 

Title (lead author) etc:

 'Cut down to quit' with nicotine replacement therapies in smoking cessation: a systematic review of effectiveness and economic analysis  (Wang) 156 pages, Volume 12, number 2

DOI

 10.3310/hta12020
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Headline:

 Study finds that nicotine replacement therapy is effective in achieving sustained smoking abstinence for smokers who are unwilling or unable to attempt an abrupt quit. 

This report should be referenced as follows:

 Wang D, Connock M, Barton P, Fry-Smith A, Aveyard P, Moore D. 'Cut down to quit' with nicotine replacement therapies in smoking cessation: a systematic review of effectiveness and economic analysis. Health Technol Assess 2008;12(2).

Project ref:

 06/09/01 

Original project title:

 Cut down to quit with nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) in smoking cessation: systematic review of effectiveness and economic analysis (update of NICE Guidance 39) 

Chief Investigator:

 West Midlands Health Technology Assessment Collaboration (WMHTAC), University of Birmingham  

Start Date:

 May 2006  

Date of publication in HTA journal series

 January 2008

Cost:

  This project was commissioned by the HTA programme on a call-off contract basis.

MeSH* index primary terms:

 SMOKING-CESSATION Q-economics; NICOTINE Q-therapeutic-use (* = Medical Subject Headings)

MeSH* index secondary terms:

 HUMANS; REVIEW  (* = Medical Subject Headings)

NRR* number, if applicable:

 N0484184714 (*National Research Register) The National Research Register was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is now an archive of projects from early 2000 to September 2007. Search the NRR archive.

Project Protocol:

 Project protocol (pdf format, 167 kbytes)

Printed copies of this title despatched:

 98 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month)

Downloads/Views of electronic version from website:

 22102 (Figures are cumulative.) Last updated 27th July 2010.

URL of this page:

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Outputs from this project

  • Aveyard P; Wang D; Connock M; Fry-smith A; Barton P; Moore D.. Assessing the outcomes of prolonged cessation-induction and aid-to-cessation trails: Floating prolonged abstinence.. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2009; doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntp035.
  • Moore D; Aveyard P; Connock M; Wang D; Fry-smith A; Barton P.. Effectiveness and safety of nicotine replacement therapy assisted reduction to stop smoking:systematic review and meta-analysis.. BMJ 2009; 338:b1024.
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