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mHealth interventions for smoking cessation show moderate-quality evidence for increasing abstinence rates, particularly when using mobile phone-based interventions.
Mobile phone-based interventions, including SMS, can help smokers quit. They offer moderate-quality evidence for increasing abstinence rates.
ModerateSupportsMEDIUM confidence
Positive results have been demonstrated with moderate-quality evidence that mobile phone-based cessation interventions increased abstinence rates at 26 weeks (RR 1.67 95% CI 1.46-1.90... GRADE Moderate).
Why this rating
Moderate quality evidence (GRADE Moderate) from 12 RCTs.
Source
The Impact of mHealth Interventions: Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews
Milena Soriano Marcolino et al. · JMIR mhealth and uhealth · 2018
DOI 10.2196/mhealth.8873
Meta-analysis · 371 studiesCited 1,256×
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