Six Month Abstinence Heterogeneity in the Best Quit Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the characteristics of smokers who are successful in quitting may help to increase smoking cessation rates.

Purpose

To examine heterogeneity in cessation outcome at 6 months following smoking cessation behavioral counseling with or without weight management counseling.

Methods

2,540 smokers were recruited from a large quitline provider and then randomized to receive proactive smoking cessation behavioral counseling without or with two versions of weight management counseling. A Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis was conducted to identify the individual pretreatment and treatment characteristics of groups of smokers with different quitting success (as measured by point prevalence of self-reported smoking of any amount at 6 month

SUBMITTER: Javitz HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7309581 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature