Mobile phone-based smoking cessation interventions increase long-term quit rates compared with control programmes, but effects of the interventions are heterogeneous

摘要

Although healthcare providers are moderately adherent with practice guidelines for asking, advising and assessing tobacco use, adherence to assisting and arranging cessation services remains poor, often due to limited time and training.1 2 Referral to quit lines has been an established means for providing these cessation services,3 but the growing ubiquity of mobile phones now provides the opportunity to deliver cessation services with exceptional reach to nearly everyone at any time. Automated text messaging and other computerised mobile phone features allow these services to be fully scalable with minimal human resource costs.