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Quitlines

Correspondence to:
Edward Lichtenstein, Oregon Research Institute, 1715 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR 97403, USA; ed@ori.org

Keywords: quitlines; smoking cessation

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In February 2005, the major contributors to quitline development and research met in Washington, DC, at a conference: "Developing a Research Agenda to Improve the Impact of Tobacco Use Quitlines." The five sponsors of the conference—the National Institute on Drug Abuse; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Cancer Institute; the Canadian Tobacco Control Research Institute; and Health Canada—subsequently agreed to support a special issue of Tobacco Control on quitlines. We are grateful to these sponsors and to the editorial staff of Tobacco Control for making this issue possible. Both the 2005 conference and the special issue testify to the emergence of quitlines as a widely available, evidence based resource for smokers seeking cessation assistance. Anderson and Zhu¹ in the concluding paper of this issue, document the rapid growth and availability of quitline assistance throughout the world.

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