Teen smoking-cessation trial first to achieve significant quit rates

For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre 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 personalised, proactive telephone counselling, significantly impact rates of six-month continuous quitting. These findings, by Arthur V. Peterson Jr., Ph.D., Kathleen A. Kealey and colleagues, are reported in a pair of papers in the 12 October 'Advance Access' online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...

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