Higher dosage nicotine patches increase one-year smoking cessation rates: results from the European CEASE trial. Collaborative European Anti-Smoking Evaluation. European Respiratory Society.

Sociodemographic predictors of success in smoking intervention.

AIM To examine the role of sociodemographic factors as predictors of sustained smoking cessation for the population who volunteer to participate in intervention programmes. METHOD Data for the 3575 smokers who participated in the CEASE (collaborative European anti-smoking evaluation) trial, a European multicentred study that used transdermal nicotine patches as an adjunct to smoking cessation...

CEASE (Collaborative European Anti-Smoking Evaluation): a challenging multicentre trail organized by the European Respiratory Society.

Importance of baseline cotinine plasma values in smoking cessation: results from a double-blind study with nicotine patch.

Nicotine replacement by transdermal patches is more effective than placebo in smoking cessation, but has a low success rate after one year (9-18%). We tested whether this was attributed to insufficient nicotine replacement. We conducted a randomized trial to investigate the effect on outcome of different doses of transdermal nicotine replacement after stratification according to baseline plasma...

Interventions for smoking cessation: the outcomes are determined by the questions asked.

There is an increasing awareness of the health risks associated with smoking among the general public. However, the rates of smoking in Western countries have been remarkably resistant to change, and in developing countries the rates are increasing. Many interventions of the health promotion variety are being explored, while the tobacco industry is just as interested in developing more effectiv...

Recycling of hard-core smokers with nicotine nasal spray.

The primary aim of this smoking cessation study was to evaluate the effect of long-term treatment with nicotine nasal spray in a group of hard-core smokers. A further aim was to compare the effect of ad libitum with fixed dosage of nasal nicotine spray. Eighty nine smokers, failures from two earlier studies with nicotine patches, were enrolled in an open smoking cessation study with nicotine na...