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Smoking cessation quitlines: an underrecognized intervention success story.
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- Tobacco Quitline Retreatment Interventions Among Adults With Socioeconomic Disadvantage: A Factorial Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- A Randomized Trial of Telephone-Based Smoking Cessation Treatment in the Lung Cancer Screening Setting.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2022Trial
- Feasibility and acceptability of testing a menstrual-cycle timed smoking cessation intervention for women of reproductive age (Project Phase): Results of a pilot randomized control trial.Addictive behaviors · 2022Trial
- A telephone-based guided imagery tobacco cessation intervention: results of a randomized feasibility trial.Translational behavioral medicine · 2021Trial
- Implementation of Ask-Advise-Connect in a safety net healthcare system: quitline treatment engagement and smoking cessation outcomes.Translational behavioral medicine · 2020Trial
- Self-efficacy as a pathway to long-term smoking cessation among low-income parents in the multilevel Kids Safe and Smokefree intervention.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2019Trial
- Helping Smokers with Severe Mental Illness Who Do Not Want to Quit.Substance use & misuse · 2018Trial
- Effects of a culturally specific tobacco cessation intervention among African American Quitline enrollees: a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Enhancing the efficacy of a smoking quit line in the military: Study rationale, design and methods of the Freedom quit line.Contemporary clinical trials · 2017Trial
- A telephone-based intervention to promote physical activity during smoking cessation: a randomized controlled proof-of-concept study.Translational behavioral medicine · 2017Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of directive and nondirective smoking cessation coaching through an employee quitline.BMC public health · 2016Trial
- Relapse-Prevention Booklets as an Adjunct to a Tobacco Quitline: A Randomized Controlled Effectiveness Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2016Trial
- Comparative and cost effectiveness of telemedicine versus telephone counseling for smoking cessation.Journal of medical Internet research · 2015Trial
- Lessons learned for follow-up phone booster counseling calls with substance abusing emergency department patients.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2015Trial
- Design and participant characteristics of a randomized-controlled trial of telemedicine for smoking cessation among rural smokers.Contemporary clinical trials · 2014Trial
- Cost-effectiveness of internet and telephone treatment for smoking cessation: an economic evaluation of The iQUITT Study.Tobacco control · 2013Trial
- Quitline cessation counseling for young adult smokers: a randomized clinical trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013Trial
- Enhancing tobacco quitline effectiveness: identifying a superior pharmacotherapy adjuvant.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013Trial
- The effects of a multilingual telephone quitline for Asian smokers: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2012Trial
- Comparison of quit rates among exclusive cigarette smokers at Tobacco Control Center in Qatar: telephone versus face-to-face consultation.BMC primary care · 2025Article
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Abstract
Quitlines providing telephone counseling for smoking cessation derive from behavioral research and theory, have been shown to be effective, and have been adopted and then institutionalized at both the state and national levels. Although psychologists have made seminal contributions to quitline development and evaluation, this accomplishment has gone largely unnoticed by the practice and research communities in clinical, counseling, and health psychology. This article summarizes the development, content, structure, empirical status, and current reach of cessation quitlines. We note the rich research opportunities afforded by quitlines, describe some recent approaches to improving their effectiveness, and suggest that an understanding of how quitlines work could also improve their effectiveness. The implications for practitioners and the potential application of telephone counseling to other disorders are also considered.
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