Journal article
A randomised trial of nicotine assisted reduction to stop in pharmacies - the RedPharm study.
- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: Public policy and clinical treatment in tobacco addiction in the UK has focused on cessation: an abrupt attempt to stop all cigarettes. However, recent evidence suggests that allowing more gradual withdrawal from tobacco or even permanent partial substitution by nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) could lead to net benefits to public health. No jurisdiction has introduced smoking reduction programmes in normal clinical care and the best methods for their implementation is uncert...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Prevention Research Advisory Board of the National Prevention Research Initiative
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC public health Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 182
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2458
- ISSN:
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1471-2458
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:351509
- UUID:
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uuid:1d7f6cf1-03f1-4257-882a-997a48c9b1d1
- Local pid:
- pubs:351509
- Source identifiers:
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351509
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Taskila et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- © 2012 Taskila et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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