Randomized Trial of Nicotine Lozenges and Phone Counseling for Smokeless Tobacco Cessation.
Monday, April 13, 2015
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Herbert H. Severson, Brian G. Danaher, Jon O. Ebbert, Nora van Meter, Edward Lichtenstein, Chris Widdop, Ryann Crowley, Laura Akers, and John R. Seeley
Randomized Trial of Nicotine Lozenges and Phone Counseling for Smokeless Tobacco Cessation.
Nicotine Tob Res (2015) 17 (3): 309-315 doi:10.1093/ntr/ntu145
Relatively few treatment programs have been developed specifically for smokeless tobacco (ST) users who want to quit. Their results suggest that self-help materials, telephone counseling, and nicotine lozenges are efficacious. This study provides the first direct examination of the separate and combined effects of telephone counseling and lozenges.
Combining nicotine lozenges and phone counseling significantly increased tobacco abstinence rates compared with either intervention alone, whereas coach calls and lozenges were equivalent. The study confirms the high tobacco abstinence rates for self-help ST cessation interventions and offers guidance to providing tobacco treatment to ST users.
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