Cost and Effectiveness of Combination Nicotine Replacement Therapy Among Heavy Smokers Contacting a Quitline

Cost and Effectiveness of Combination Nicotine Replacement Therapy Among Heavy Smokers Contacting a Quitline

A recent advance in quitline medication delivery is to offer combination nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) as a specific pharmacotherapy strategy to optimise cessation outcomes. A great deal of evidence supports combining smoking cessation medications to improve cessation rates over those achieved...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of smoking cessation 2016-03, Vol.11 (1), p.50-59
Hauptverfasser: Krupski, Laurie, Cummings, K. Michael, Hyland, Andrew, Mahoney, Martin C., Toll, Benjamin A., Carpenter, Matthew J., Carlin-Menter, Shannon
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Sprache:eng
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Cost benefit analysis
Drug therapy
Health care delivery
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Smoking cessation
Telemedicine
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Zusammenfassung:A recent advance in quitline medication delivery is to offer combination nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) as a specific pharmacotherapy strategy to optimise cessation outcomes. A great deal of evidence supports combining smoking cessation medications to improve cessation rates over those achieved by the use of individual smoking cessation medications (Carpenter M.J., 2013; Stead et al., 2012).
ISSN:1834-2612
1834-2612
DOI:10.1017/jsc.2014.15