A Population-wide Smoking Cessation/Prevention Program

The major goals of this project were to evaluate the effectiveness of a smoking cessation/relapse prevention intervention in a population of young adults at high risk for smoking resumption and initiation and to determine the predictors of treatment success in this intervention.

Klesges, R.C.; Haddock, C.K.; Lando, H.; Talcott, G.W. Efficacy of forced smoking cessation and an adjunctive behavioral treatment on long-term smoking rates. J Consult Clin Psychol. 1999;67(6): 952-958. Abstract

Lando, H.A.; Haddock, C.K.; Robinson, L.A.; Klesges, R.C.; Talcott, G.W. Ethnic differences in patterns and correlates of age of initiation in a population of Air Force recruits. Nicotine Tob Res. 2000;2:337-344. Abstract

Klesges, R.C.; Haddock, C.K.; Chang, C.F.; Talcott, G.W.; Lando, H.A.; The association of smoking and the cost of military training. Tob Control. 2001;10:43-7. Abstract

Haddock, C.K.; Vander Weg, M.W.; DeBon, M.; Klesges, R.C.; Talcott, G.W.; Lando, H.; Peterson, A. Evidence that smokeless tobacco use is a gateway for smoking initiation in young adult males. Prev Med. 2001;32:262-267. Abstract

Ward, K.D.; Vander Weg, M.W.; Wood Kovack, K.; Klesges, R.C.; DeBon, M.; Haddock, C.K.; Talcott, G.W.; Lando, H.A. Ethnic and gender differences in smoking and smoking cessation in a population of young adult Air Force recruits. Am J Health Promot. 2002;16(5):259-266. Abstract

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