Identifying effective intervention components for smoking cessation: a factorial screening experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To identify promising intervention components intended to help smokers to attain and maintain abstinence in their quit smoking attempts.

Design

A fully crossed, six-factor randomized fractional factorial experiment.

Setting

Eleven primary care clinics in southern Wisconsin, USA.

Participants

A total of 637 adult smokers (55% women, 88% white) motivated to quit smoking who visited primary care clinics.

Interventions

Six intervention components designed to prepare smokers to quit, and achieve and maintain abstinence (i.e. for the preparation, cessation and maintenance phases of smoking treatment): (1) preparation nicotine patch versus none; (2) preparation nicotine gum versus none; (3) preparation counseling versus none; (4) intensive cessation in-per

SUBMITTER: Piper ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4699315 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature