Comparative effectiveness of intervention components for producing long-term abstinence from smoking: a factorial screening experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To identify promising intervention components that help smokers attain and maintain abstinence during a quit attempt.

Design

A 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 randomized factorial experiment.

Setting

Eleven primary care clinics in Wisconsin, USA.

Participants

A total of 544 smokers (59% women, 86% white) recruited during primary care visits and motivated to quit.

Interventions

Five intervention components designed to help smokers attain and maintain abstinence: (1) extended medication (26 versus 8 weeks of nicotine patch + nicotine gum); (2) maintenance (phone) counseling versus none; (3) medication adherence counseling versus none; (4) automated (medication) adherence calls versus none; and (5) electronic medication monitoring with feedback and counseling versus

SUBMITTER: Schlam TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4692280 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature