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What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

137 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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6. Predictors of cessation in African American light smokers enrolled in a bupropion clinical trial.Addictive behaviors · 2013
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7. Lay health influencers: how they tailor brief tobacco cessation interventions.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2012
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8. Altered arterial stiffness and subendocardial viability ratio in young healthy light smokers after acute exercise.PloS one · 2011
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9. Differences between intermittent and light daily smokers in a population of U.S. military recruits.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2010
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16. CHRNA5-A3-B4, CYP2A6, and DBH Genetic Associations With Smoking Cessation Throughout Adulthood Within Two Longitudinal Studies of Women.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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17. Cigarette smoking in relation to survival in Black women with ovarian cancer: Evidence from the African American Cancer Epidemiology Study (AACES).Annals of epidemiology · 2025
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18. The budget impact analysis of nicotine replacement therapy among patients who smoke tobacco and have mental illness in South Africa and the implications.BMC health services research · 2025
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19. The potential of AB-free kava in enabling tobacco cessation via management of abstinence-related stress and insomnia: study protocol for a randomized clinical trial.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2024
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20. The Prognostic Value of Preoperative Total Cholesterol in Surgically Treated Oral Cavity Cancer.Biomedicines · 2024
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