Smoking cessation strategies: Time to be more realistic in our expectations of interventions to help quitters

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7854, 2012, Pages

  Chapman, Simon ^a   Wakefield, Melanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NICOTINE;

EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TELECONSULTATION; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE;

FEMALE; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; HOTLINES; HUMANS; MALE; REMOTE CONSULTATION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO USE CESSATION PRODUCTS;

EID: 84860320682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e1732     Document Type: Editorial

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