Extended Self-Help for Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Far too few smokers receive recommended interventions at their healthcare visits, highlighting the importance of identifying effective, low-cost smoking interventions that can be readily delivered. Self-help interventions (e.g., written materials) would meet this need, but they have shown low efficacy. The purpose of this RCT was to determine the efficacy of a self-help intervention with increased duration and intensity.

Design

Randomized parallel trial design involving enrollment between April 2010 and August 2011 with follow-up data for 24 months.

Setting/participants

U.S. national sample of daily smokers (N=1,874).

Intervention

Participants were randomized to one of three arms of a parallel trial design: Traditional Self-Help (TSH, n=638), Stand

SUBMITTER: Brandon TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4914420 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature