Teen smoking-cessation trial first to achieve significant quit rates
Monday, October 12, 2009 - 16:21
in Health & Medicine
SEATTLE -- For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have demonstrated that it is possible to successfully recruit and retain a large number of adolescent smokers from the general population into a smoking intervention study and, through personalized, proactive telephone counseling, significantly impact rates of six-month continuous quitting.