Homeless Clients Benefit From Smoking Cessation Treatment Delivered by a Homeless Persons’ Program
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Community-based study highlights the importance of recruiting homeless persons in smoking cessation trials
The prevalence of smoking remains high among the homeless populations. Approximately 70% of homeless persons are known to smoke, which is three-times the national USA average; however, smoking cessation studies usually exclude the homeless population. Therefore, novel evidence-based interventions are needed for this high-risk subpopulation of smokers. With this in mind, scientists at the Univer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nicotine & Tobacco Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1462-2203,1469-994X
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntv062