A computer-directed program for smoking cessation treatment.
This report describes a computer-directed cigarette smoking cessation program that individualizes nicotine fading schedules for smokers based upon their daily smoking behavior. Previous outcome data from minimal intervention and intensive stop-smoking treatment studies are presented. Preliminary urinary cotinine data also are presented to validate the program's underlying assumption that computer-directed nicotine fading results in across-treatment reductions in biological levels of nicotine.
Burling
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Domiciliary Services, Palo Alto Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, CA 94304, USA.
Seidner
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Gaither
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D003367:Cotinine / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008657:Metabolic Clearance Rate / Q000502:physiology; D009538:Nicotine / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D012984:Software; D013375:Substance Withdrawal Syndrome / Q000652:urine; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D017132:Workplace
D009538:Nicotine; D003367:Cotinine