A randomized trial of telephone counseling with adult moist snuff users.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate telephone counseling for moist snuff use.


METHODS
We recruited 221 adult males using snuff and randomized them into a telephone-counseling intervention or a quit-manual comparison group. Subjects were contacted by mail at 3 and 6 months to complete a 4-page follow-up questionnaire.


RESULTS
A significantly higher proportion of subjects randomized to the intervention quit tobacco at each time point compared to the comparison group.


CONCLUSIONS
With appropriate staff training, moist snuff and other types of nonsmoked tobacco should be added to the state-funded smoking cessation quit lines started in recent years.
Boyle
Raymond G
RG
HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440, USA. Raymond.Boyle@HealthPartners.com
Pronk
Nicolaas P
NP
Enstad
Christopher J
CJ
D000328:Adult; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D015277:Hotlines; D006801:Humans; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D020340:Tobacco Use Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D014030:Tobacco, Smokeless