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Former smokers key to helping current smokers quit
Respiratory Care Weekly, February 22, 2006
A six-week smoking-cessation program run by former smokers may increase quit rates, suggested research presented at the February 17 Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco's 12th annual meeting in Orlando, FL. Key to the Augusta, GA program's success was not only nicotine patch therapy, but support from local former smokers who helped program participants with quitting, according to Jeanette Andrews, PhD, RN, nursing professor at the Medical College of Georgia and principal investigator of the program.
Results of the program include a 27.5% quit rate after six months, better than many programs and five times better than a control group.
"These early results clearly show that a community health worker-led intervention holds promise for promoting awareness and outreach of the program, promoting trust in the community, and ensuring cultural appropriateness of the intervention," Andrews said.
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