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Systematic Review
To determine the effectiveness of smoking cessation programmes for people with lung cancer.
The authors identified no RCTs that met our inclusion criteria. Among the 1817 records retrieved using the search strategy, they retrieved 19 studies for further investigation. The authors excluded 15 trials: ten trials because they could not distinguish people with lung cancer from the other participants, or the participants were not people with lung cancer, four because they were not randomised, or RCTs. The authors excluded one trial because, though it was completed in 2004, no results are available. They assessed four ongoing trials for inclusion when data becomes available."
There were no RCTs that determined the effectiveness of any type of smoking cessation programme for people with lung cancer. There was insufficient evidence to determine whether smoking cessation interventions are effective for people with lung cancer and whether one programme is more effective than any other. People with lung cancer should be encouraged to quit smoking and offered smoking cessation interventions. However, due to the lack of RCTs, the efficacy of smoking cessation interventions for people with lung cancer cannot be evaluated and concluded. This systematic review identified a need for RCTs to explore these.