Interventions for tobacco cessation in the dental setting

Evidence summary: is smoking cessation an effective and cost-effective service to be introduced in NHS dentistry?

“…One Cochrane review addressed the topic of the effectiveness of smoking cessation programs 3 and an update of this review was found in the International Dental Journal. 4 This also addressed a separate question of whether in-house counselling in the dental practice is better than referring the patient to a specialist.…”

“…Consequently, for the question on the effectiveness of the intervention, this rapid assessment only included clinical trials that were published after 2008 and met the criteria of the Cochrane review to evaluate whether the Cochrane review is still up to date. 3 …”

“…1,2 General dental practice provides an ideal opportunity to support smokers in smoking cessation, however, lack of knowledge and time of practitioners and a lack of financial reimbursement has been a barrier to implementing tobacco cessation services. 3 these interventions. The original question submitted was developed into the working question 'Is smoking cessation counselling in dental practise an effective and cost-effective service?…”

Deconstructing interventions: approaches to studying behavior change techniques across obesity interventions

“…An abundance of behavioral intervention studies have been conducted in an attempt to create effective population-based programs that can be disseminated widely in order to reduce the burden of disease in various populations [1][2][3][4][5]. While important advances have been made and successes realized [6,7], there are numerous examples of carefully designed and wellimplemented interventions that had small effects or were ineffective [8][9][10][11][12][13][14].…”

Help your patients stub it out this Stoptober

“…This is the first systematic review to demonstrate oral health professionals increasing quit rates within the dental setting. 16 A key priority is therefore to ensure that primary care professionals, such as members of a dental team, engage tobacco users, advise them that their local stop smoking services offer the best chance of stopping, and provide a referral to those services.…”