Proactive, personalized telephone counseling can help teen smokers to quit

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/jotn-ppt100809.php

Public release date: 12-Oct-2009
Contact: Steve Graff
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Proactive, personalized telephone counseling can help teen smokers to quit

Personalized, proactive telephone counseling centered on motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral skills training has been found to favorably impact quit rates among teen smokers, according to a pair of studies published online October 12 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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This is the first adolescent smoking cessation trial to report a statistically significant intervention impact on 6-month prolonged abstinence, as measured one year post-intervention, in a large, general population of teens.

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