Intensive counseling combined with varenicline or family-based interventions significantly improves smoking cessation rates compared to brief advice or usual care.
Brief advice and brief counseling led by nurses outperform usual care, underlining the importance of routine nurse involvement in tobacco cessation efforts.
The certainty of evidence for the most effective nurse-led interventions ranges from low to moderate, highlighting the need for more high-quality randomized trials.
Nurse-led smoking cessation strategies are essential and scalable approaches to enhance tobacco abstinence within and beyond six months.
