RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 What is the quality of smoking cessation advice in guidelines of tobacco-related diseases?
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 546
OP 549
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-6-546
VO 15
IS 6
A1 Ilze Bogdanovica
A1 Sanjay Agrawal
A1 Benjamin Gregory
A1 John Britton
A1 Jo Leonardi-Bee
A1 on behalf of the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians
YR 2015
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/6/546.abstract
AB Smoking is a major risk factor for a range of diseases, and quitting smoking provides considerable benefits to health. It therefore follows that clinical guidelines on disease management, particularly for diseases caused by smoking, should include smoking cessation. The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which this is the case. We conducted a systematic review investigating clinical guidelines and recommendations issued by UK national or European transnational medical speciality associations and societies issued between 2000 and 2012 on a range of diseases caused by smoking. We then investigated whether selected guidelines contained reference to smoking cessation and smoking cessation advice. Although the extent to which smoking and smoking cessation was mentioned in the guidelines varied between diseases, only 60% of guidelines identified recognised that smoking is a risk factor for the development of the disease and 40% recommended smoking cessation. Only 19% of guidelines provided detailed information on how to deliver smoking cessation support. Smoking cessation is not comprehensively addressed in current UK and transnational European clinical practice guidelines and recommendations.