Enhancing Pharmacological And Behavioural Support To Reduce Smoking Relapse: A Factorial RCT
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$939,040.00
Summary
Typically stop smoking services users use a base medicine for 8-12 weeks complemented by counselling, delivered via telephone in Australia. This is effective at helping people stop smoking in the short-term, but after one year most will have relapsed. Effective strategies to prevent smoking relapse are desperately needed. The use of stop smoking medicines beyond 8-12 weeks can help reduce relapse, but research (ours and others), find uptake to be modest. New products that deliver nicotine in va