Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of behavioural support for prolonged abstinence for smokers wishing to reduce but not quit: Randomised controlled trial of physical activity assisted reduction of smoking (TARS)
<p><strong>Aims:</strong> For smokers unmotivated to quit, we assessed the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of behavioural support to reduce smoking and increase physical activity on prolonged abstinence and related outcomes.</p> <p><strong>Design:</strong...
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| author | Taylor, AH Thompson, TP Streeter, A Chynoweth, J Snowsill, T Ingram, W Ussher, M Aveyard, P Murray, RL Harris, T Callaghan, L Green, C Greaves, CJ Price, L Creanor, S |
| author_facet | Taylor, AH Thompson, TP Streeter, A Chynoweth, J Snowsill, T Ingram, W Ussher, M Aveyard, P Murray, RL Harris, T Callaghan, L Green, C Greaves, CJ Price, L Creanor, S |
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| description | <p><strong>Aims:</strong> For smokers unmotivated to quit, we assessed the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of behavioural support to reduce smoking and increase physical activity on prolonged abstinence and related outcomes.</p>
<p><strong>Design:</strong> A multi-centred pragmatic two-arm parallel randomised controlled trial.</p>
<p><strong>Setting:</strong> Primary care and the community across four United Kingdom sites.</p>
<p><strong>Participants:</strong> Nine hundred and fifteen adult smokers (55% female, 85% White), recruited via primary and secondary care and the community, who wished to reduce their smoking but not quit.</p>
<p><strong>Interventions:</strong> Participants were randomised to support as usual (SAU) (n = 458) versus multi-component community-based behavioural support (n = 457), involving up to eight weekly person-centred face-to-face or phone sessions with additional 6-week support for those wishing to quit.</p>
<p><strong>Measurements:</strong> Ideally, cessation follows smoking reduction so the primary pre-defined outcome was biochemically verified 6-month prolonged abstinence (from 3–9 months, with a secondary endpoint also considering abstinence between 9 and 15 months). Secondary outcomes included biochemically verified 12-month prolonged abstinence and point prevalent biochemically verified and self-reported abstinence, quit attempts, number of cigarettes smoked, pharmacological aids used, SF12, EQ-5D and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) at 3 and 9 months. Intervention costs were assessed for a cost-effectiveness analysis.</p>
<p><strong>Findings:</strong> Assuming missing data at follow-up implied continued smoking, nine (2.0%) intervention participants and four (0.9%) SAU participants achieved the primary outcome (adjusted odds ratio, 2.30; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.70–7.56, P = 0.169). At 3 and 9 months, the proportions self-reporting reducing cigarettes smoked from baseline by ≥50%, for intervention versus SAU, were 18.9% versus 10.5% (P = 0.009) and 14.4% versus 10% (P = 0.044), respectively. Mean difference in weekly MVPA at 3 months was 81.6 minutes in favour of the intervention group (95% CI = 28.75, 134.47: P = 0.003), but there was no significant difference at 9 months (23.70, 95% CI = −33.07, 80.47: P = 0.143). Changes in MVPA did not mediate changes in smoking outcomes. The intervention cost was £239.18 per person, with no evidence of cost-effectiveness.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> For United Kingdom smokers wanting to reduce but not quit smoking, behavioural support to reduce smoking and increase physical activity improved some short-term smoking cessation and reduction outcomes and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, but had no long-term effects on smoking cessation or physical activity.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:849bbbf3-bd5f-46a0-9e87-4b050425805e2023-11-07T12:35:08ZEffectiveness and cost-effectiveness of behavioural support for prolonged abstinence for smokers wishing to reduce but not quit: Randomised controlled trial of physical activity assisted reduction of smoking (TARS)Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:849bbbf3-bd5f-46a0-9e87-4b050425805eEnglishSymplectic ElementsWiley2023Taylor, AHThompson, TPStreeter, AChynoweth, JSnowsill, TIngram, WUssher, MAveyard, PMurray, RLHarris, TCallaghan, LGreen, CGreaves, CJPrice, LCreanor, S<p><strong>Aims:</strong> For smokers unmotivated to quit, we assessed the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of behavioural support to reduce smoking and increase physical activity on prolonged abstinence and related outcomes.</p> <p><strong>Design:</strong> A multi-centred pragmatic two-arm parallel randomised controlled trial.</p> <p><strong>Setting:</strong> Primary care and the community across four United Kingdom sites.</p> <p><strong>Participants:</strong> Nine hundred and fifteen adult smokers (55% female, 85% White), recruited via primary and secondary care and the community, who wished to reduce their smoking but not quit.</p> <p><strong>Interventions:</strong> Participants were randomised to support as usual (SAU) (n = 458) versus multi-component community-based behavioural support (n = 457), involving up to eight weekly person-centred face-to-face or phone sessions with additional 6-week support for those wishing to quit.</p> <p><strong>Measurements:</strong> Ideally, cessation follows smoking reduction so the primary pre-defined outcome was biochemically verified 6-month prolonged abstinence (from 3–9 months, with a secondary endpoint also considering abstinence between 9 and 15 months). Secondary outcomes included biochemically verified 12-month prolonged abstinence and point prevalent biochemically verified and self-reported abstinence, quit attempts, number of cigarettes smoked, pharmacological aids used, SF12, EQ-5D and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) at 3 and 9 months. Intervention costs were assessed for a cost-effectiveness analysis.</p> <p><strong>Findings:</strong> Assuming missing data at follow-up implied continued smoking, nine (2.0%) intervention participants and four (0.9%) SAU participants achieved the primary outcome (adjusted odds ratio, 2.30; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.70–7.56, P = 0.169). At 3 and 9 months, the proportions self-reporting reducing cigarettes smoked from baseline by ≥50%, for intervention versus SAU, were 18.9% versus 10.5% (P = 0.009) and 14.4% versus 10% (P = 0.044), respectively. Mean difference in weekly MVPA at 3 months was 81.6 minutes in favour of the intervention group (95% CI = 28.75, 134.47: P = 0.003), but there was no significant difference at 9 months (23.70, 95% CI = −33.07, 80.47: P = 0.143). Changes in MVPA did not mediate changes in smoking outcomes. The intervention cost was £239.18 per person, with no evidence of cost-effectiveness.</p> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> For United Kingdom smokers wanting to reduce but not quit smoking, behavioural support to reduce smoking and increase physical activity improved some short-term smoking cessation and reduction outcomes and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, but had no long-term effects on smoking cessation or physical activity.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Taylor, AH Thompson, TP Streeter, A Chynoweth, J Snowsill, T Ingram, W Ussher, M Aveyard, P Murray, RL Harris, T Callaghan, L Green, C Greaves, CJ Price, L Creanor, S Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of behavioural support for prolonged abstinence for smokers wishing to reduce but not quit: Randomised controlled trial of physical activity assisted reduction of smoking (TARS) |
| title | Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of behavioural support for prolonged abstinence for smokers wishing to reduce but not quit: Randomised controlled trial of physical activity assisted reduction of smoking (TARS) |
| title_full | Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of behavioural support for prolonged abstinence for smokers wishing to reduce but not quit: Randomised controlled trial of physical activity assisted reduction of smoking (TARS) |
| title_fullStr | Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of behavioural support for prolonged abstinence for smokers wishing to reduce but not quit: Randomised controlled trial of physical activity assisted reduction of smoking (TARS) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of behavioural support for prolonged abstinence for smokers wishing to reduce but not quit: Randomised controlled trial of physical activity assisted reduction of smoking (TARS) |
| title_short | Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of behavioural support for prolonged abstinence for smokers wishing to reduce but not quit: Randomised controlled trial of physical activity assisted reduction of smoking (TARS) |
| title_sort | effectiveness and cost effectiveness of behavioural support for prolonged abstinence for smokers wishing to reduce but not quit randomised controlled trial of physical activity assisted reduction of smoking tars |
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