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Stop smoking: Free nicotine patches, gum & lozenges available
WFLX Fox 29, FL - May 8, 2008
Now, the state anti-smoking campaign will start airing student-produced commercials and begin offering free nicotine patches, gum and lozenges. ...
Anti-Smoking Campaign WMBB-TV
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Last day to get free nicotine patches and gum in NYC
Newsday, NY - Apr 30, 2008
AP There's just one day left to take advantage of New York City's anti-smoking program, which is giving away free nicotine patches and gum. ...
NYC Health Dept.'s Free Assistance to Quit Smoking Ending 1010 Wins
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Chinese man uses nicotine patches to cover hole in chest
13WHAM-TV, NY - Apr 25, 2008
Rao Jicang has survived for ten years with the plastered patches despite his heart being visible through paper folds. He says is now desperately looking for ...
New City Advertising Campaign Promotes Free Nicotine Patches
New York Sun, NY - Apr 16, 2008
The ads, to air through May 1, promote the city's 16-day "giveaway" of free nicotine patches and gum. "Quitting smoking is the single most important thing ...
FLORIDA'S SMOKING-CESSATION PROGRAM
Orlando Sentinel, FL - May 7, 2008
A state program launched in December is offering free nicotine gum, lozenges and nicotine patches to smokers. $57.9 million was spent by state officials on ...
QUITPLAN(R) Services Can Help Make Mother's Day Smoke-Free
FOXBusiness - May 10, 2008
QUITPLAN(R) Centers -- QUITPLAN Centers provide in-person counseling in a healthcare setting, as well as access to nicotine patches, lozenges or gum. ...
Free Trial? Smoking Cessation Patch Promoter Halts Deceptive ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release), NY - May 7, 2008
The operation claimed its herbal smoking cessation patches work better than nicotine patches and ?have a 97% success rate.? There is no substantiation for ...
Health: Smoking gun?
Scotland on Sunday, UK - May 10, 2008
By Emma Bradley Giving up cigarettes is hard enough, but with reports of nicotine withdrawal being linked to depression and suicide, could a drug designed ...
Nicotine replacement therapy helps
Times Daily (subscription), AL - May 6, 2008
Here's a quick review of the options: Nicotine patches - The patches deliver a steady dose of nicotine. A popular type of 24-hour patch called NicoDerm CQ ...
Smoking ban behind attempts to quit
The Press Association - Apr 28, 2008
Research suggests smokers are four times more likely to quit successfully with NHS support and nicotine patches and gum, Cancer Research UK said. ...
Worcester smokers may get an extra boost from the state to help ... Worcester Telegram
Five Myths About Quitting Smoking eMaxHealth.com
Quitting 'Most Powerful Addiction' Not Impossible The Ledger
Cancer Research UK - News & Resources
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Effectiveness of a large-scale distribution programme of free nicotine patches: a prospective … -
N Miller, TR Frieden, SY Liu, TD Matte, F … - The Lancet, 2005 - Elsevier
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Reach, Efficacy, and Cost-effectiveness of Free Nicotine Medication Giveaway Programs. -
KM Cummings, B Fix, P Celestino, S Carlin-Menter, … - Journal of Public Health Management & Practice, 2006 - jphmp.com
... Miller N, Frieden TR, Liu SY, et al. Effectiveness of a large-scale free nicotine
patch distribution program. Lancet. 2005;365:1849-1854. ...

[CITATION] Effectiveness of a large free nicotine patch distribution program
N Miller, TR Frieden, SY Liu? - Lancet, 2005

… and effectiveness of a statewide tobacco quitline after the addition of access to free nicotine … -
LC An, BA Schillo, AM Kavanaugh, RB Lachter, MG … - British Medical Journal, 2006 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
... et al. Effectiveness of a large-scale distribution programme of free nicotine
patches: a prospective evaluation. Lancet 2005;365 ...

Free Nicotine Patch Giveaway Program 12-Month Follow-up of Participants -
KM Cummings, A Hyland, B Fix, U Bauer, P Celestino … - American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2006 - Elsevier
... 2 N. Miller, TR Frieden and SY Liu et al., Effectiveness of a large-scale free nicotine
patch distribution program, Lancet 365 (2005), pp. 1849?1854. ...

Cost-effectiveness of pharmacological interventions for smoking cessation: a literature review and a … -
F Song, J Raftery, P Aveyard, C Hyde, P Barton, N … - Med Decis Making, 2002 - mdm.sagepub.com
... Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and bupropion sustained release ... effectiveness
of adding NRT patch to GP ... Not for commercial use or unauthorized distribution. ...

Adult Tobacco Use Levels After Intensive Tobacco Control Measures: New York City, 2002-2003 -
TR Frieden, F Mostashari, BD Kerker, N Miller, A … - American Journal of Public Health, 2005 - Am Public Health Assoc
... 19. Miller N, Frieden TR, Liu SY, et al. Effectiveness of a large free nicotine
patch distribution program. Lancet. In press 2005. 20. ...

Predictors of long-term outcome of a smoking cessation programme in primary care -
G Grandes, JM Cortada, A Arrazola, JP Laka - Br J Gen Pract, 2003 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... JM, Arrazola A. An evidence-based programme for smoking ... Distribution of smokers by
stage in three ... Nicotine nasal spray with nicotine patch for smoking cessation ...

A meta-analysis of the efficacy of over-the-counter nicotine replacement -
JR Hughes, S Shiffman, P Callas, J Zhang - British Medical Journal, 2003 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
... changes" resulted in a notably uneven distribution of subjects to nicotine and placebo ...
n = 278?802) tested active versus placebo patch (table 1 Go). ...

Use and Effectiveness of Tobacco Telephone Counseling and Nicotine Therapy in Maine -
SH Swartz, TM Cowan, JE Klayman, MBT Welton, BA … - American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2005 - Elsevier
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Effectiveness of a distribution programme of free nicotine patches

 
 
Easy access to cessation medication for diverse populations could help many more smokers to stop.

Tobacco kills around 5 million people worldwide every year and is the leading preventable cause of death in developed countries. It is estimated that more than 70% of smokers in the USA are interested in stopping but only 7% of those who try without medicine or counselling successfully stop for a year or more. Smokers who use Nicotine Replacement Therapy ( NRT ) are much more likely to quit than those who do not use such treatment.

Thomas Frieden , of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and colleagues undertook a large-scale distribution programme of free NRT in New York.

In April 2003 the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene publicised the availability of a free 6-week course of NRT patches to the first 35,000 eligible smokers to call the New York State Smokers Quitline.
The investigators sent NRT patches to 34000 individuals and attempted follow-up counselling calls for all recipients. 1300 randomly selected participants underwent a 6-month follow-up survey.
Individuals who requested and were enrolled in the program but who, because of mailing errors, did not receive the treatment, were also surveyed.

More NRT recipients ( 33% ) successfully quit smoking than people in the comparison group ( 6% ). Those who received a counselling call were more likely to quit than those who did not. At least 6000 successful quits could be attributed to receipt of free NRT, at a cost of US$464 or less per quit, state the authors.

Frieden states: “ On the conservative assumption that all the non-respondents to our follow-up survey sample continued to smoke, one in five NRT recipients, more than 6000 New Yorkers, stopped smoking as a result of this programme. If [ survey ] non-respondents stopped in similar proportions to survey respondents, the programme accounted for more than 9000 quits.

“ Although New York City implemented this programme at a time when new smoke-free workplace legislation and increased taxation on cigarettes focused public attention on cessation, these findings suggest the potential for similar interventions to encourage large numbers of smokers to attempt to quit smoking.”

In an accompanying comment Mike Murphy and Paul Aveyard, from University of Oxford ( UK ), state: “ Miller assessed outcomes in the softest way at 6 months: namely, without verification ( so respondents could deceive if they wished ), and by reporting smoking abstinence only during the previous week, not continuous abstinence since the quit attempt. We think the results of the distribution programme are therefore likely to be overestimated, but are not surprising. ”
 
 
 
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