Tobacco Use

Computer-Tailored Cessation Programs Helps Increase Number Who Quit

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 11th, 2001

A study of daily smokers in Switzerland helped to increase abstinence rates among those who received personalized computer-generated counseling letters along with booklets that matched their level of willingness to quit, according to an article in the November 26, 2001, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Jean-Francois Etter, PhD, MPH, from the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues studied 2934 randomly selected smokers willing to participate in the program and at varying stages of preparedness to quit. The authors divided the volunteers into two groups - 1467 smokers who received computer-tailored...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2001-12-11)

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