Extended treatment of older cigarette smokers.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Tobacco dependence treatments achieve abstinence rates of 25-30% at 1 year. Low rates may reflect failure to conceptualize tobacco dependence as a chronic disorder. The aims of the present study were to determine the efficacy of extended cognitive behavioral and pharmacological interventions in smokers > or = 50 years of age, and to determine if gender differences in efficacy existed.

Design

Open randomized clinical trial.

Setting

A free-standing, smoking treatment research clinic.

Participants

A total of 402 smokers of > or = 10 cigarettes per day, all 50 years of age or older.

Intervention

Participants completed a 12-week treatment that included group counseling, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and bupropion. Participants, independent of smokin

SUBMITTER: Hall SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2718733 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature