Smokers' challenge: immediate and long-term findings of a community smoking cessation contest.
- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 77 (10) , 1340-1341
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.77.10.1340
Abstract
The present study examined the effectiveness of a community-based smoking contest in helping 500 smokers maintain three months postcontest and one year postcontest abstinence. The majority were chronic smokers with a limited number of previous quit attempts. The three- and 12-month postcontest quit rates were 19 per cent and 15 per cent, respectively, rates exceeding naturally occurring community cessation rates. The contest was found to be more cost-effective than quit smoking classes.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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