Short- and long-term smoking cessation for three levels of intensity of behavioral treatment

This is a critical abstract of an economic evaluation that meets the criteria for inclusion on NHS EED. Each abstract contains a brief summary of the methods, the results and conclusions followed by a detailed critical assessment on the reliability of the study and the conclusions drawn. Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in conjunction with behavioural treatments was effective in improving one-year abstinence rates among smokers. As the authors had hypothesised, more intense treatments led to higher abstinence rates, but also to higher costs.