Help smokers quit: tell them their "lung age".

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Biomedical risk assessment as an aid for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019
   Pooled it
2. Spirometry as a motivator for smoking cessation among patients attending the smoking cessation clinic of Monastir.BMC public health · 2022
   Trial
3. Multimodal Assessment of Biological Age Following Radiation Therapy Among Patients With Early-Stage NSCLC.JAMA network open · 2026
   Article
4. Design of a randomized tobacco cessation trial among FDNY World Trade Center responders in a lung cancer screening program.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025
   Article
5. A Machine-Learning Model for Lung Age Forecasting by Analyzing Exhalations.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
   Article
6. How old are you, really? Communicating chronic risk through 'effective age' of your body and organs.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2016
   Article
7. Assessment of a pharmacist-driven point-of-care spirometry clinic within a primary care physicians office.Pharmacy practice · 2011
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Effect on smoking quit rate of telling patients their lung age: the Step2quit randomised controlled trial.2008

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

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