Statewide Teen Smoking-Cessation Trial Is The First To Achieve Significant Increase In Prolonged Quit Rates.

October 16, 2009 3:23 PM | No Comments
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. The trial, funded by the National Institutes of Health, involved 2,151 teenage smokers from 50 high schools in Washington. Half of the schools were randomly assigned to the experimental intervention; teens in these schools were invited to take part in confidential, personalized telephone counseling designed to help motivate them to quit.  COMMENT. Despite the praise for the study, the difference in quit rates for test and control groups was only 4%.  This was despite a highly intensive effort.  No Cost[benefit analysis was done but it is highly unlikely for the process to work in the general population because of cost.

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