Beyond Quitting: Any Additional Impact of Mailing Free Nicotine Patches to Current Smokers?

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

1. A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial of Remote Varenicline Sampling to Promote Treatment Engagement and Smoking Cessation.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021
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2. Nicotine replacement therapy sampling for smoking cessation within primary care: results from a pragmatic cluster randomized clinical trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2020
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3. Real-World Effectiveness of Nicotine Replacement Therapy Sampling in Chinese Women of a Sex-Specific Smoking Cessation Program in Hong Kong, China.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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4. Do medications increase the efficacy of digital interventions for smoking cessation? Secondary results from the iCanQuit randomized trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2024
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5. The differential impact of nicotine replacement therapy sampling on cessation outcomes across established tobacco disparities groups.Preventive medicine · 2020
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6. Replicating state Quitline innovations to increase reach: findings from three states.BMC public health · 2020
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7. Nicotine replacement therapy sampling via primary care: Methods from a pragmatic cluster randomized clinical trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2018
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