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Systematic review finds higher smoking cessation rates with community health worker support, suggesting potential benefits despite limited and heterogeneous evidence.
Higher smoking cessation rates were seen in the interventions that combined the usual care with interventions by CHWs as compared to the usual care alone. However, there were insufficient studies to prove the effectiveness. In addition, there was high heterogeneity in terms of interventions and participants in the current studies.
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