A Combination Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) Algorithm for Hard-to-Treat Smokers
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Intentions of smokers to use free nicotine replacement therapy.
Public health initiatives to distribute nicotine replacement therapy free of charge as a means of promoting smoking cessation are ongoing. Are there enough smokers interested in using nicotine replacement therapy to have a substantial impact on the prevalence of smoking if this aid were distributed free to all interested smokers? We conducted a telephone survey of 825 randomly selected daily sm...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Smoking Cessation
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1834-2612
DOI: 10.1375/jsc.1.1.3