A COMPARISON OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT IN SMOKING CESSATION
A COMPARISON OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT IN SMOKING CESSATION
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00846161
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
FAGERSTROM, KO
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作者:
FAGERSTROM, KO
A double-blind trial of a smoking-withdrawal chewing gum containing 2 mg nicotine was conducted with 100 consecutive patients in a smoking cessation clinic. All patients received the usual psychological treatment given at the clinic. The patients were randomly assigned to a nicotine gum (the experimental group) or a placebo chewing gum (control group). The abstinence rates for the experimental group at 1, 3 and 6 mo. after quitting were 90, 76 and 63%, respectively. The comparable abstinence rates for the control group were 60, 52 and 45%. The differences were significant at the 5% level at all 3 follow-up periods. When nicotine dependence, as measured by a standard questionnaire, was taken into consideration, it was found that 71% of the high-nicotine-dependent smokers in the experimental group were abstinent after 6 mo., compared to 39% in the placebo group. Low-nicotine-dependent patients achieved 75 and 65%, respectively, for the same time interval. The gum was well accepted by patients and gave no serious side effects.