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Review
. 2007 Jul 7;335(7609):37-41.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.39252.591806.47.

Managing smoking cessation

Paul Aveyard  1 , Robert West
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Review

Managing smoking cessation

Paul Aveyard et al. BMJ. .
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: PA receives a personal income from the UK National Health Service and the University of Birmingham. He has received research funds from the NHS, and various research charities and has received hospitality from various pharmaceutical companies, including those making products for smoking cessation. He has received free drugs for distribution to trial participants from King Pharmaceuticals and Novartis Consumer Health Care and has received consultancy income to him and his institution from Xenova Biotechnology and Pfizer for advice on smoking cessation. RW undertakes research and consultancy for, and has received hospitality and travel funds from, manufacturers of smoking cessation drugs and has a share of a patent for a novel nicotine delivery device.

Figures

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Fig 1 Motivational tension: inside the mind of a smoker—the desire to stop versus the need to smoke (adapted from West and Shiffman
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Fig 2 Effects on smoking prevalence of strategies to help smokers if all smokers made one attempt per year to stop, starting at age 35
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References

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