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Quit and Win contests for smoking cessation.

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BACKGROUND: Quit and Win contests were developed in the 1980s by the Minnesota Heart Health Program, and have been widely used since then as a population-based smoking cessation intervention at local, national and international level. Since 1994 an international contest has been held every two years in as many as 80 countries (2002). OBJECTIVES: To determine whether quit and win contests can deliver higher long-term quit rates than baseline community quit rates.To assess the impact of such pr...

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10.1002/14651858.cd004986.pub3

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Engineering Science
Sub department:
Institute of Biomedical Engineering
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Author
Journal:
Cochrane database of systematic reviews More from this journal
Issue:
4
Pages:
CD004986
Publication date:
2008-01-01
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EISSN:
1469-493X
ISSN:
1469-493X
Language:
English
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pubs:116194
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uuid:fedee843-9367-471f-90a2-500e59061f75
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pubs:116194
Source identifiers:
116194
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2012-12-19

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