| Study | Reason for exclusion |
|---|---|
| Anderson 2002 | Feasibility study; No 6‐month follow‐up; No comparators |
| Babar 2007 | No control group |
| Baluch 1995 | No control group |
| Barnes 2006 | No control group. All participants received pharmacist support and St John's Wort |
| Bauld 2011 | Observational study comparing group‐based support to one‐on‐one counselling, not random |
| Bock 2010 | RCT comparing electronically‐delivered smoking cessation programme alone compared with a smoking cessation programme plus NRT with observational no‐intervention arm, not random |
| Carroll 2000 | No control group |
| Condinho 2015 | No control group |
| Costello 2011 | RCT of 2 behavioural interventions; 1 with NRT and 1 without; No control group, 5‐week follow‐up |
| Dent 2004 | No control group |
| Doescher 2002 | No control group |
| Gauen 1995 | No control group |
| Hasford 2003 | No control group (evaluated OTC nicotine patch) |
| Hodges 2010 | No control group; Follow‐up less than 6 months after the intervention |
| Hoving 2010 | Intervention was not delivered by pharmacy personnel |
| Howard‐Pitney 1999 | Randomised to receive NRT or placebo; both groups received same behavioural treatment |
| Isacson 1998 | No control group |
| Jansen 2014 | No control group |
| Kennedy 2002 | No control group |
| Liang 2017 | Intervention took place in a primary care setting and incorporates different types of primary care staff |
| Madurasinghe 2017 | Less than 6 months follow‐up |
| McEwen 2006 | Non‐randomised study with 4‐week follow‐up. Some individual counselling participants were treated by pharmacists |
| Mochizuki 2004 | Randomised study with only 3 months follow‐up (pilot study, 28 participants) |
| NCT02433860 | Not community pharmacy clients |
| NCT02554071 | No control group |
| NCT03518476 | Participants not community pharmacy clients |
| Patwardhan 2012 | Feasibility study, no smoking cessation outcomes |
| Prokhorov 2006 | Study of pharmacist and physician training with 3‐month follow‐up, smoking cessation outcomes not reported in abstract |
| Prokhorov 2010 | Study of pharmacist and physician training with 12‐month follow‐up, smoking cessation outcomes not reported |
| Purcell 2006 | No control group; Follow‐up less than 6 months after the intervention |
| Roth 2001 | No control group |
| Sonderskov 1997 | NRT versus placebo, no other intervention |
| Swartz 1995 | No control group |
| UMIN000029545 | Follow‐up 3 months only |
| Vial 2002 | Participants did not meet the criteria for consideration in this review, i.e. were not community pharmacy clients who were smokers wishing to stop. Participants recruited in a hospital setting and randomised to 1 of 3 arms of the study; support programme of counselling and nicotine patches initiated in hospital with the first consultation with a research pharmacist common to 2 groups, then continued by hospital‐ or community pharmacy‐based pharmacists compared with minimal intervention without nicotine patches |
| Vitale 2000 | Descriptive paper, no control group |
| Wongwiwatthananukit 2010 | Not community pharmacy clients |
OTC: over the counter; NRT: nicotine replacement therapy