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  • Title: Any further progress in smoking cessation treatment?
    Author: Piasecki TM, Baker TB.
    Journal: Nicotine Tob Res; 2001 Nov; 3(4):311-23. PubMed ID: 11694198.
    Abstract:
    The release of the US Public Health Service's quantitative review of smoking treatments, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence (TTUD; Fiore, Bailey, Cohen et al., 2000, AHRQ Publication, USDHHS), is a fitting occasion to revisit a question posed by Shiffman (1993, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 61:718-722): has there been any recent progress in smoking cessation treatment? Using TTUD meta-analyses as a rough guide, we present an overview of current elements of clinical treatments (structure, content, and pharmacotherapy) with statistical claims to efficacy. We note characteristics of treatment, or treatment research, that may retard accumulation of critical knowledge, including the hegemony of multi-component treatments and a seeming disinterest in treatment process. Finally, we sketch avenues of potentially generative research that might foster new insights and improved treatments. It is concluded that not much has changed since Shiffman's (1993) review, and that his call for a rededication to basic research is still prudent but largely unanswered.
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