Simplicity sells: Making smoking cessation easier.
Toll-free telephone quitlines are successful alternatives to direct clinician contact. In 2004, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services created a national quitline number, 1-800-QUIT-NOW. This enabled states without quitlines to establish them, giving free access to cessation services to every smoker in the U.S. It also created a new mechanism for national quitline marketing, employing simplified and streamlined approaches.
Bonniot Saucedo
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Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA. csaucedo@medicine.ucsf.edu
Schroeder
Steven A
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