Efficacy of SMS Text Message Interventions for Smoking Cessation: A Meta-Analysis

Spohr, Stephanie A.; Nandy, Rajesh; Gandhiraj, Deepthi; Vemulapalli, Abhilash; Anne, Sruthi; Walters, Scott T.

doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2015.01.011

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“…The results of our findings are broadly consistent with a previous meta-analysis of studies conducted in the general population, which reported a higher pooled smoking abstinence rate associated with text messaging for three months, compared to messaging for six months. 30 It is important to note that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence of long-term effects of mHealth delivered interventions. The lack of significant differences on long-term abstinence, however, may be due to the small number of studies contributing evidence to this indirect evidence network, and as such the evidence is inconclusive.…”

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Comparison of mHealth and Face-to-Face Interventions for Smoking Cessation Among People Living With HIV: Meta-Analysis (Preprint)

Uthman¹,

Nduka²,

Abba³

et al. 2017

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Comparison of mHealth and Face-to-Face Interventions for Smoking Cessation Among People Living With HIV: Meta-Analysis (Preprint)

Uthman¹,

Nduka²,

Abba³

et al. 2017

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“…The cooperation of patients in outpatient clinic follow-up creates a significant problem in dealing with smoking addiction. A recent meta-analysis of 13 studies using SMS in smoking cessation counseling suggested that SMS based interventions generally increased quit rates when compared with no intervention (25). Another study investigating SMS based intervention for smoking cessation in young adults aged 18-25 years showed an increase in smoking cessation in the short-term (4 weeks after cessation), but the data on long-term results was not sustained and it was inconclusive (26).…”

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Does Short Message Service Increase Adherence to Smoking Cessation Clinic Appointments and Quitting Smoking?

Önür¹,

Uysal²,

Iliaz³

et al. 2016

Balkan Med J

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Background: Using innovative and scientific methods increases the rate of quitting in smokers. Short message service (SMS) is a communication tool widely used and well integrated in many people's daily lives. To increase adherence to appointments in smoking cessation clinics (SCC), it is thought that increased compliance could be achieved by falling outside the traditional methods. SMS has been shown to increase the compliance of patients with SCC appointments. Aims: In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effect of SMS in the compliance of patients with SCC followup visits and smoking cessation success. Study Design: Case-control study. Methods: Our study was a controlled, open, prospective study. We enrolled 436 cases applied to SCC of Yedikule Training and Research Hospital between 01.10.2013-30.06.2014 and agreed to follow-up with SMS. SMS was sent to the patients to remind them of appointments at the SCC and to query their smoking state. Results: Two hundred-and-eighty seven (65.8%) of the patients were male and 149 (34.2%) were female.The mean age was 45±12 years. In this study, 296 (67.9%) patients had graduated from primary school. Our patients' smoking state was queried by telephone at the 6-month follow-up and we contacted 348 patients. According to this, 88 (25.3%) patients were not smoking, and 260 (74.7%) patients were smokers. Therefore, the smoking cessation rate was 24% (n=60) in patients who did not respond to SMS reminders at all, and 28.6% (n=28) in patients answering any SMS at least once (p=0.377). Smoking cessation rate of the patients invited by SMS but who did not attend any control visits was 19.1%, and it was 34.5% in patients coming to a control visit at least once. This difference was statistically significant (p=0.001). Conclusion: In our study, there was increased success of smoking cessation in patients coming to control visits. We think that this may result from the possibly increased compliance to SCC appointments following reminders by SMS, and that this may also increase smoking cessation success.

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“…Her ne kadar gençlerde yapılmasa da kısa telefon mesajları (SMS)'lerin etkisini araştıran bir metaanalizde kontrol grubuyla kıyaslandığında araştırma grubunda %36 gibi yüksek oranda bulunmuştur (23) . Cochrane analizde de 12 araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre cep telefonları kullanılarak yapılan sigara bırakma girişimlerinin yararlı bulunduğu ifade edilmiştir (24) .…”

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Youth and Smoking Cessation Treatments

Karalezli¹

2017

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Efficacy of SMS Text Message Interventions for Smoking Cessation: A Meta-Analysis

Cited by 170 publications

References 23 publications

Comparison of mHealth and Face-to-Face Interventions for Smoking Cessation Among People Living With HIV: Meta-Analysis (Preprint)

Comparison of mHealth and Face-to-Face Interventions for Smoking Cessation Among People Living With HIV: Meta-Analysis (Preprint)

Does Short Message Service Increase Adherence to Smoking Cessation Clinic Appointments and Quitting Smoking?

Youth and Smoking Cessation Treatments

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