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Table 6 Cessation studies-outcomes

From: Effects of sixty six adolescent tobacco use cessation trials and seventeen prospective studies of self-initiated quitting

Investigators

% quit at posttest (Attended first session)

Mean reduction at posttest (Non-quitters/attended first session)

Length of follow-up

% quit at follow-up (Attended first session)

Mean reduction at follow-up

(Non-quitters/attended first session)

Ary et al.

NR

NR

12 months

35% – program

31% – control

31%

Aveyard et al.

NR

NR

5 months (1 year after pretest)

20% – transtheoretical program

20% – control

NR

Baskerville, Hotte, Dunkley

22% – Quit-and-Win participants

6% – intervention schools

5% – control schools

NR

6 months

2% – Quit-and Win participants

NR – intervention or control schools

NR

Bauman et al.

NA

NA

1 year

31% – family program

22% – control (not significant)

NR

Beaglehole et al.

NR

NR

~3 months

1% increase-program

1% decrease-control

NR

Biener et al.

NA

NA

~1 year

0%

NR – 29% decrease overall

Chakravorty

13% – both conditions

NR

NA

NA

NA

Charlton

NR

NR

6 months

17% – clinic course

10% – individual package (control)

NR

Cinnomin, Sussman

NR

NR

1 month

17% – cognitive-behavioral/social influence

0% – chemical addiction

42% – cognitive-behavioral/social influence

5% – chemical addiction

Colby et al.

NR

NR

3 months

20% – motivation interviewing

10% – brief advice

10% – both conditions

Coleman-Wallace et al.

12% – TEG

15% – TAP

0% – control (small n)

18% – TEG

24% – TAP

0% – control

NA

NA

NA

Corby et al.

100%

NA

3 weeks

0%

0%

Digiusto

8% – both program conditions

NR

3–4 months

14% – both program

7% control

NR

Dino et al.

17% – NOT, 8% brief intervention

59% – NOT, 42% – brief intervention

5 months

10% – NOT 7% – brief intervention

57% – NOT, 51% – brief intervention

Eakin, Severson, Glasgow

28%

77%

6 months

12%

45%

Etter, Ronchi, Perneger

NA

NA

7 months after baseline

0% – both program and control conditions

3% increase in program, 5% increase in control

Fibkins

19%

~30%

NA

NA

NA

Forster et al.

NA

NA

36 months

2% increase program

7% increase control

6% relative reduction

Glasgow et al.

NR

NR

6 months

10% program

6% control

NR

Glover

2%

NR

6 months

2%

NR

Goldberg, Gorn

20%

NR

3 months

11%

NR

Greenberg, Deputat

40% – fear

27% – facts

36% – values

6% – control

NR

5 months

12% – fear

16% – facts

24% – values

4% – control

NR

Hafstad, Aaro, Langmark

NR

NR

2 weeks (5 weeks since start of campaign)

12%

NR

Horn et al.

14% – NOT, 4% brief intervention

76% – NOT, 54%-brief intervention

NA

NA

NA

Horswell, Horton

~6% – Pack In Those Smokes (PITS)

0% – control

63% – PITS

0% – control

6 months

~6% – PITS

0% – control

46% – PITS

0% – control

Hotte et al.

8% – group

2% – kit-only

7% – group

3% – kit-only

6 months

4% – group

NA – kit-only

4% – group

NA – kit-only

Hurt et al.

11%

~49%

6 months

5%

~19%

Jason, Mollica, Ferrone

55% – both program groups

0% – control group

14% – both program groups

50% – control

17 months

41% – both program groups

0% – control

0% – both program groups

400% increase-control

Jerome

29%

41%

NA

NA

NA

Johnson et al.

0% for all groups

NR

24 months

0% for all groups

NR

Kempf, Stanley

NA

NA

2 weeks

NR – "as-if" 100% in smoke-free program but not stated 4% – program

NR

Killen et al.

NR

NR

2 months

9% – control

NR

Lampkin

NR

NR

~5 months

14%

18%

Librett

17%

39%

NA

NA

NA

Lotecka, McWhinney

NR

64% – coping

0% – information (control)

NA

NA

NA

Matson-Koffman, Miller

NR

NR

12 months

16%

~12%

McDonald, Roberts, Deeschaemaker

16%

61%

NA

NA

NA

Mills, Ewy, Dizon

15% (all were senior high youth)

8%

3 months

7%

7%

Murray, Prokhorov, Harty

2.3% – program State

0.1% increase-control

State; difference not significant

NR

NA

NA

NA

Myers, Brown

NR

NR

24 months

5%

19%

Myers, Brown, Kelly

NR

NR

3 months

17%

~60%

Pallonen

~20%

NR

6 months

6%

NR

Patten et al.

18%

NR

mean of 64 months

12%

~18%

Patterson

14% – last 48 hours

NR

3 months

14%

NR

Pendell

14% across TEG and TAP

50% across

TEG and TAP

NA

NA

NA

Perry et al.

NR

NR

4 months

5.7% quit (below monthly use) in program condition

4.1% increase in control condition

NR

Perry et al.

NR

NR

1–2 months

23% across conditions

(27% – long-term health, 17% – social consequences, 29% – immediate effects, not significant differences, small n)

7% – long-term health, increased 16% – social consequences, 17% – immediate effects (not significant)

Peters

17% at 6 months

NR

12 months

15%

NR

Peterson, Clark

0% program and control groups

NR

1 month

0% program and control groups

44% discussion group

9% control

Popham et al.

NR

NR

12 months

2% – 1% difference as a function of exposure

NR

Prince

16%

42%

1 month

16%

42%

Quinlan, McCaul

NA

NA

1 month

3% – stage matched

14% – stage mismatched

0% – control

NR

Rigotti et al.

0% – program

1% – control

NR

24 months-anonymous surveys

3% increase-program

0% – control

NR

Skjoldebrand, Gahnberg

~4%

NR

NA

NA

NA

Smith et al.

14%

93%

12 months

5%

59%

St. Pierre, Shute, Jaycox

0%

~31%

NA

NA

NA

Suedfeld et al.

NA

NA

3 months

0%

Sensory D-Message 28%

Sensory D-No Message 22%

No Sensory D-Message 22%

Control 0%

Sussman, Burton et al.

35% – chemical addition-ST

11% – chemical addiction – smoking

24% – psychosocial dependency – ST

26% – psychosocial dependency – smoking

8% – wait-list control-smoking

NR

3 months

15% – program conditions – ST

7% – program conditions – smoking

0% – wait list control – ST

8% – wait list control – smoking

NR

Sussman, Dent, Lichtman

14% – both program conditions

NA – control

23% – both program conditions

NA – control

4–5 months

17% – both program conditions

8% – control

23% – in all conditions

Sussman, Dent, Stacy

NR

NR

12 months

34% – health educator

21% – self-instruction

21% – control

15% – health educator

0% – self-instruction and control

Townsend et al.

60% – agreed to try to quit NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

Vartiainen et al.

NA

NA

6 months

28%

NR

Wakefield et al.

NA

NA

~24 months

Odds ratios

Public place .90

Home ban .78

Enforce school ban .89

NA

Weisman et al.

36%

25%

5 months

36%

NR

Zavela, Harrison, Owens

NR

NR

1 month

NR

mean days abstinent mint snuff – 18.8 (63% of month)

bubble gum – 21.5 (72% of month)

No substitute – 23.5

(78% of month)

Zheng

13% 7-day quit rate

4% 30-day quit rate

20%

NA

NA

NA

  1. NA = not applicable; NR = not reported; ~ = approximately.