| Methods |
Country: UK (Wales)
Recruitment setting: general practice (family practice) |
| Participants |
226 smokers aged 60+ in general practice who completed a health questionnaire. Unselected by motivation to quit |
| Interventions |
1. Letter asking participant to visit doctor who advised on importance of stopping smoking, opportunity to see practice nurse who gave advice on lifestyle factors concentrating on quitting smoking
2. No contact, completed questionnaire only
Intensity: Low |
| Outcomes |
PP abstinence at 6 m
Validation: expired CO (cut‐off point not stated) |
| Notes |
Intervention included nursing and physician advice |
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Method not described |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Not specified |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Low risk |
10% lost to follow‐up in intervention group; 9% lost to follow‐up in treatment group. Participants lost to follow‐up counted as smokers |
