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Hartmann-Boyce, Jamie and Hong, Bosun and Livingstone-Banks, Jonathan and Wheat, Hannah and Fanshawe, Thomas R (2019) Additional behavioural support as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (6), Art. No.: CD009670. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009670.pub4.

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Conclusions: There is high‐certainty evidence that providing behavioural support in person or via telephone for people using pharmacotherapy to stop smoking increases quit rates. Increasing the amount of behavioural support is likely to increase the chance of success by about 10% to 20%, based on a pooled estimate from 65 trials. Subgroup analysis suggests that the incremental benefit from more support is similar over a range of levels of baseline support. More research is needed to assess the effectiveness of specific components that comprise behavioural support. 

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