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. 2021 Sep 6;2021(9):CD011556. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011556.pub2

Bock 2014.

Study characteristics
Methods Design: Randomized controlled trial
Setting: Inner‐city hospital‐based primary care clinics, UK
Recruitment: During routine healthcare visits in primary care clinics
Participants 846 adults who smoked randomized to intervention (n = 406) and control (n = 440), 68.7% female, average age 39, cpd of at least 10
Interventions Intervention: participants received a 45‐minute counseling session with health educators and follow‐up calls at quit date and 2 weeks, in addition to the standard care (described below)
Control:
Healthcare professionals received training on smoking cessation guidelines and applying the 5 As
Participants received brief advice from their physician and 8 weeks of NRT
Outcomes 7‐day PPA at 12m
Validation: Expired CO ≤ 5 ppm
Funding Source National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA010860)
Author's declarations of interest Authors declared that they had no conflict of interest.
Notes Strategy: Provider training, adjunctive counseling, cost‐free medication
Level: Patient, provider
Comparison type: Active vs. active
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Sequence Generation Low risk The computer used a random number program to assign participants at random to one of two treatment conditions
Allocation concealment Low risk Computerised system
Blinding of outcome assessors
All outcomes Low risk Smoking status was validated by carbon monoxide
Incomplete outcome data
All outcomes High risk Follow‐up rate was low overall (< 50%) : Intervention: 47.3%, Control: 41.4%