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Background and aims
Black adults who smoke are less likely to seek treatment and to succeed in quitting compared with other racial groups. The lack of efficacious and engaging trials for smoking cessation further contributes to this disparity. This study explored whether an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)‐based smartphone application (iCanQuit) was more efficacious for smoking cessation than...
Background and aims
Millions of people world‐wide use websites to help them quit smoking, but effectiveness trials have an average 34% follow‐up data retention rate and an average 9% quit rate. We compared the quit rates of a website using a new behavioral approach called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT; WebQuit.org) with the current standard of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Smokefree...
AimsTo test the effectiveness of tailored quitline (telephone) counselling among smoking parents recruited into cessation support through their children's primary schools.
DesignTwo‐arm randomized controlled trial with 3‐ and 12‐month follow‐up.
SettingProactive telephone counselling was administered by the Dutch national quitline.
ParticipantsSmoking parents were recruited through their children's...
AimsTo test whether psychological factors predict male smokeless tobacco (SLT) initiation and cessation longitudinally.
DesignSixteen‐year longitudinal design with 95% retention at year 6 and 82% at year 16.
SettingForty Washington State school districts.
ParticipantsSLT use data were gathered on a cohort of adolescents (91% Caucasian). For SLT initiation, the sample size was 2468. For SLT cessation,...
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