Enhancing Tobacco Quitline Effectiveness: Identifying a Superior Pharmacotherapy Adjuvant
Enhancing Tobacco Quitline Effectiveness: Identifying a Superior Pharmacotherapy Adjuvant
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DOI:
10.1093/ntr/nts186
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发表时间:
2013-03-01
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Fiore, Michael C.
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作者:
Smith, Stevens S.;Keller, Paula A.;Fiore, Michael C.
: Telephone tobacco quitlines are effective and are widely used, with more than 500,000 U.S. callers in 2010. This study investigated the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of 3 different quitline enhancements: combination nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), longer duration of NRT, and counseling to increase NRT adherence.: In this study, 987 quitline callers were randomized to a combination of quitline treatments in a 22 2 factorial design: NRT duration (2 vs. 6 weeks), NRT type (nicotine patch only vs. patch plus nicotine gum), and standard 4-call counseling (SC) versus SC plus medication adherence counseling (MAC). The primary outcome was 7-day point-prevalence abstinence (PPA) at 6 months postquit in intention-to-treat (ITT) analyses.: Combination NRT for 6 weeks yielded the highest 6-month PPA rate (51.6%) compared with 2 weeks of nicotine patch (38.4%), odds ratios [OR] 1.71 (95% confidence interval [CI]:1.202.45). A similar result was found for 2 weeks of combination NRT (48.2%), OR 1.49 (95% CI: 1.042.14) but not for 6 weeks of nicotine patch alone (46.2%), OR 1.38 (95% CI: 0.961.97). The MAC intervention effect was nonsignificant. Cost analyses showed that the 2-week combination NRT group had the lowest cost per quit ($442 vs. $464 for 2-week patch only, $505 for 6-week patch only, and $675 for 6-week combination NRT).: Combination NRT for 2 or 6 weeks increased 6-month abstinence rates by 10% and 13%, respectively, over rates produced by 2 weeks of nicotine patch when offered with quitline counseling. A 10% improvement would potentially yield an additional 50,000 quitters annually, assuming 500,000 callers to U.S. quitlines per year.