Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions Evidence review A: smoking behaviour

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2020)

NICE - ISBN: 978-1-4731-3872-8

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Evidence Categories

• Care setting: Healthcare Setting
• Population group: Adults
• Population group: Pre existing health condition
• Population group: Pregnancy/ post-partum
• Population group: General Population
• Population group: Children & Young adults
• Intervention: Multicomponent Interventions
• Intervention: Universal Smoking Cessation Interventions
• Outcome: Smoking cessation
• Outcome: Changes to smoking rates

Type of Evidence

NICE Underpinning Review

Overview

This review will cover digital and mobile health interventions for the individual. It will address established unhealthy behaviour relating to smoking. Addressing this behaviour can help to reduce the risk of developing conditions, for example, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases as well as improving mental wellbeing.

Recommendations

The recommendations are those of NICE guideline NG183. 

1.5 Smoking

1.5.1 Consider digital and mobile health interventions as an option to help people stop smoking as an adjunct to existing services. Be aware that their effectiveness is variable.

1.5.2 Advise the person who wants to stop smoking using a digital or mobile health intervention that text message-based interventions with tailored messages may be more effective than other digital and mobile health interventions.

1.5.3 Do not offer digital and mobile health interventions that are known to be funded or developed by the tobacco industry.