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Smokers' challenge: immediate and long-term findings of a community smoking cessation contest.

Author(s) -

Abby C. King,

J A Flora,

Stephen P. Fortmann,

C. Barr Taylor

Publication year - 1987

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.77.10.1340

Subject(s) - contest , smoking cessation , abstinence , medicine , quit smoking , demography , environmental health , psychiatry , political science , sociology , pathology , law

The present study examined the effectiveness of a community-based smoking contest in helping 500 smokers maintain three months postcontest and one year postcontest abstinence. The majority were chronic smokers with a limited number of previous quit attempts. The three- and 12-month postcontest quit rates were 19 per cent and 15 per cent, respectively, rates exceeding naturally occurring community cessation rates. The contest was found to be more cost-effective than quit smoking classes.

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