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  • Quitting smoking: Quitlines success

    In the world of extremely difficult smoking-cessation (quitting smoking), telephone-based programs are apparently having some real success. Quitting smoking with quitlines According to a recent summary-analysis (we call these meta-analyses) of research done on Smoking Cessation Quitlines (CSQs), smokers who call and participate are 1.5 times more likely to quit! These are roughly the same…

  • More from AHSR – Addiction research to increase treatment success

    Okay, there was almost too much to cover in a single post today. Actually, hold the almost. I want to cover a few of the basic things we talked about today, but many of the rest will have to be incorporated into future posts. Yesterday, I wrote about talks having to do with new ideas…