Oxford Tobacco Addiction Group (OXTAG)
Our group produces primary research and systematic reviews of the evidence on interventions to prevent and treat tobacco addiction. This includes interventions for smoking cessation, for preventing smoking uptake, and public policy interventions for reducing smoking prevalence.
WHO WE ARE
We are a group of researchers and doctoral students based within the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and the Interdisciplinary Research in Health Sciences team at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, chaired by Dr Nicola Lindson. We work together to produce research that reduces the burden of tobacco use and smoking-related disease.
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Nicola Lindson
Associate Professor
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Anne Ferrey
Senior Researcher and Course Director, MSc Translational Health Sciences
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Angela Wu
Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer
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Annika Theodoulou
Systematic Reviewer & Doctoral researcher
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Ailsa Butler
Postdoctoral Researcher & Systematic Reviewer
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Xinxin Yang
Post-doctoral Researcher
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Jonathan Livingstone-Banks
Lecturer & Senior Researcher in Evidence-Based Healthcare
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Andrea Leinberger-Jabari
DPhil Candidate
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Jack Joyce
Research Programme Manager
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Rachna Begh
Deputy Course Director, MSc Translational Health Sciences & University Research Lecturer
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Monserrat Guilherme Conde
Researcher
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Ethan Knight
Research Assistant
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
SONGS
BLOGS
Quitting smoking: Which types of behavioural support work best to help people stop?
What is the best way to stop smoking- should I stop suddenly or cut down first?
- Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT): evidence on help to quit smoking
NEWS PIECES IN THE CONVERSATION
Heated tobacco: a new review looks at the risks and benefits
Nicotine replacement: when quitting cigarettes, consider using more nicotine, not less
Nicotine therapy for coronavirus: the evidence is weak and contradictory
E-cigarettes: misconceptions about their dangers may be preventing people from quitting smoking
New evidence shows e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking
E-cigarettes get FDA approval: 5 essential reads on the harms and benefits of vaping
Projects
KEY PROJECTS
Electronic Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation: Cochrane Living Systematic Review
Follow the link to find out more about this review, latest news, podcasts and videos.
Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group Twentieth Anniversary Priority Setting
Exploring vaping and later smoking in young people an evidence mapping synthesis programme
DOCTORAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
Smoking cessation and recurrence of cardiovascular disease (Angela D Wu)
Socioeconomic inequalities and smoking cessation behaviours and outcomes (Annika Theodoulou)
Culturally-tailored tobacco use harm reduction and cessation: defining elements for an evidence-based intervention for Arab populations using a mixed methods approach (Andrea Leinberger-Jabari)
Key Publications
Optimizing process and methods for a living systematic review: 30 search updates and three review updates later
Butler AR. et al, (2024), Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 166
Effectiveness of culturally tailoring smoking cessation interventions for reducing or quitting combustible tobacco: A systematic review and meta-analyses.
Leinberger-Jabari A. et al, (2023), Addiction
Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation
Hartmann-Boyce J. et al, (2022), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2022
Pharmacological and electronic cigarette interventions for smoking cessation in adults: component network meta-analyses
Lindson N. et al, (2023), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2023