Researchers Demonstrate that Smoking Cessation Clinical Trial Results Translate Effectively into the “Real World,” Reports Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Numerous randomized clinical trials have shown the effectiveness of the two major forms of smoking cessation treatment – behavioral support and medication – in helping smokers quit. Researchers have now demonstrated that this approach can successfully translate to the “real world” and that a combination of the two treatments offers almost a threefold chance of success over attempts to quit without using a cessation aid. Their findings are published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
“Randomized clinical trials have a high internal validity, but because they are conducted under very strict conditions, they do not reflect the real world in which these treatments are supposed to be used,” explains Daniel Kotz, PhD, from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. “We therefore conducted a study to compare the various smoking cessation methods in the real world.”
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