Behavioural weight management interventions vs brief advice or no intervention: Smoking cessation
Behavioural weight management interventions showed no clear difference in smoking cessation at 6 months ‐ Weight management education versus… compared with brief advice or no intervention (low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Behavioural weight management interventions vs brief advice or no intervention Smoking cessation at 6 months ‐ Weight management education versus no intervention · People wanting to quit smoking Behavioural weight management interventions showed no clear difference in smoking cessation at 6 months ‐ Weight management education versus… compared with brief advice or no intervention (low certainty). Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation (2021) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.02 [0.78, 1.33] | 3 studies · 660 participants | Low |
Behavioural weight management interventions vs brief advice or no intervention Smoking cessation at 12 months ‐ Weight management education versus no intervention · People wanting to quit smoking Behavioural weight management interventions may leads to lower smoking cessation at 12 months ‐ Weight management education versus… compared with brief advice or no intervention (low certainty). Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation (2021) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.66 [0.48, 0.9] | 2 studies · 522 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.