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Combined, evidence from five studies included in this review finds that interventions delivered by mobile phones can help people stop smoking, though the results from individual studies varied. The interventions included in this review mainly use text messaging to provide motivation, support and tips for quitting. There are no published studies on smartphone ...

Motivational interviewing or its variants are widely used to help people stop smoking. It is a counselling technique for helping people to explore and resolve their uncertainties about changing their behaviour. It seeks to avoid an aggressive or confrontational approach. It tries to steer people towards choosing to change their behaviour, and to encourage ...

The transtheoretical model is one of several stage-based theories of behaviour change. It suggests that smokers move through a series of motivational stages before they manage to stop smoking. These are precontemplation (no thoughts of quitting), contemplation (thinking about quitting), preparation (planning to quit in the next 30 days), action (quitting ...

Smoking contributes to many health problems including cancers and heart and lung diseases. People trying to quit smoking can be helped with medication or through behavioural support such as specialist counselling and group therapy. Support, information and counselling are offered either face-to-face or by telephone. Counselling via telephone hotlines ...

Group programmes are more effective for helping people to stop smoking than being given self-help materials without face-to-face instruction and group support. The chances of quitting are approximately doubled. It is unclear whether groups are better than individual counselling or other advice, but they are more effective than no treatment. Not all ...

Advice and behavioural counselling can help smokers to quit. Giving the same type of support via written materials or other media has not been found to be very helpful, although there is likely to be a small benefit for people given no other support. Tailoring materials to provide individualized support is more effective. Comparisons between different ...

Individual counselling is commonly used to help people who are trying to quit smoking. The review looked at trials of counselling by a trained therapist providing one or more face-to-face sessions, separate from medical care. All the trials involved sessions of more than 10 minutes, with most also including further telephone contact for support. The ...

Advice from doctors helps people who smoke to quit. Even when doctors provide brief simple advice about quitting smoking this increases the likelihood that someone who smokes will successfully quit and remain a nonsmoker 12 months later. More intensive advice may result in slightly higher rates of quitting. Providing follow-up support after offering ...