Impact on quit attempts of mailed general practitioner 'brief advice' letters plus nicotine replacement therapy vouchers
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Using a quitline plus low-cost nicotine replacement therapy to help disadvantaged smokers to quit
OBJECTIVES To trial an intervention in a real-life setting to motivate low-income smokers to try to quit. The intervention under trial was the addition of subsidised nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) to a standard population quitline service. DESIGN Participants were low-income smokers, recruited "cold" via either a letter in the mail or a flyer inserted in a local newspaper. The interventio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Primary Health Care
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1172-6156
DOI: 10.1071/hc10004