Can the internet help economically disadvantaged smokers?

Mené au Royaume-Uni entre 2011 et 2013 auprès de 4 613 fumeurs quotidiens âgés de 18 ans ou plus, cet essai randomisé évalue, du point de vue de l'abstinence tabagique, l'efficacité d'une nouvelle intervention en ligne, "StopAdvisor", comportant des conseils d’experts pour arrêter de fumer et ciblant plus particulièrement les fumeurs ayant un faible niveau socio-économique

Résumé en anglais

Smoking is a major contributor to health inequalities between different social groups in many countries.1 For example, smoking is responsible for roughly half the total number of deaths in economically disadvantaged men aged 35—69 years in the US and the UK.2 However, little evidence exists for strategies to reduce smoking-related health disparities.3 Mainstream smoking cessation strategies are consistently reported to have poorer effectiveness in economically disadvantaged smokers than in affluent smokers.3 Furthermore, internet-based cessation strategies have additional concerns regarding effectiveness in smokers with poor educational attainment because these individuals are less likely to engage with web-based programs than are those with high attainment. In The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Jamie Brown and colleagues' randomised controlled trial4 challenges the prevailing position on the value of smoking cessation as a pro-equity approach...