In “Smoking Cessation: Counseling or No Counseling?” which appears in the March 2010 issue of AJNP, the authors present a critical appraisal and synthesis of current evidence to determine the effectiveness of counseling in smoking cessation treatment versus therapies that do not use counseling.  They identified 23 studies that addressed smoking cessation therapies, including (1) pharmacotherapy with or without NRT; (2) counseling with or without pharmacotherapy and/or NRT; and (3) informing patients of their current “lung age” based on pulmonary spirometry findings.  Types of counseling included telephone support (eg, quit-lines), group meetings, individual sessions, written materials, Internet-based support, or HCP support. 

You can view a summary of the methods and findings of all the studies in our photo gallery (Table 1).

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