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Targetting special populations for tobacco intervention in managed care
I. Tailored communications for smoking cessation
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Introduction
Tailored smoking cessation communications (for example, print, telephone, internet, face-to-face counselling) hold great promise for improving the efficacy of smoking cessation treatments and interventions offered through managed care organisations. Past research has shown that quit smoking guides and programs targeted to the special quitting motives and barriers of a specific population can be more appealing and more effective. This has been demonstrated for pregnant smokers, …