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. 2019 Jun 5;2019(6):CD009670. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009670.pub4

Smith 2014.

Methods Setting: Menominee Tribal Clinic (primary care centre), USA
Recruitment: all participants were receiving health care at the Menominee Tribal Clinic and were motivated to quit smoking.
Participants 103 participants, 62.1% female, average age: 39.8 (SD 13.1), average cigs/day: 14.4 (SD 7.9)
Therapists: a study coordinator who was an enrolled member of the Menominee Tribe and trained as a counsellor
Interventions Pharmacotherapy: 12 weeks of varenicline
Intervention: 5 x face‐to‐face culturally tailored counselling sessions, duration not reported
Control: 5 x face‐to‐face standard counselling sessions, duration not reported
Outcomes Abstinence: 7‐day point prevalence abstinence at weeks 1, 3, and 7, and at 3 and 6 months
Validation: CO < 10 ppm
Source of Funding/CoI Wisconsin Partnership Program, the Spirit of Eagles Community Network Program, the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, and the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. No declarations of interest
Notes New for 2019 update
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk No detail given
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk No detail given
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Biochemically validated
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Attrition rate high and differed between study arms: intervention: 47.2%; control: 66.0%