Helping parents to stop smoking: which interventions are effective?
Parental smoking increases children's risk of respiratory illness. Encouraging parents not to smoke in the home helps, but stopping smoking altogether is more effective in reducing children's exposure. The prevalence of smoking increases with higher levels of social disadvantage and is therefore a major contributor to widening inequalities in health. Randomised trials have shown that adults can be helped to stop with simple advice from health professionals, behavioural support, nicotine replacement and antidepressants.
Lancaster
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Department of Primary Helath Care, University of Oxford Institute of Health Sciences, Headington, Oxford. tim.lancaster@dphpc.ox.ac.uk
Stead
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Shepperd
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D000328:Adult; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009538:Nicotine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D010290:Parents; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods; D011247:Pregnancy; D012907:Smoking / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control
D000928:Antidepressive Agents; D014028:Tobacco Smoke Pollution; D009538:Nicotine