Are non-responders in a quitline evaluation more likely to be smokers?
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Are non-responders in a quitline evaluation more likely to be smokers?
BACKGROUND In evaluation of smoking cessation programs including surveys and clinical trials the tradition has been to treat non-responders as smokers. The aim of this paper is to assess smoking behaviour of non-responders in an evaluation of the Swedish national tobacco cessation quitline a nation-wide, free of charge service. METHODS A telephone interview survey with a sample of people not ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-52