Mobile phone-based smoking cessation interventions increase long-term quit rates compared with control programmes, but effects of the interventions are heterogeneous

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William Riley et al. Evid Based Nurs. 2013 Oct.

. 2013 Oct;16(4):108-9.

doi: 10.1136/eb-2012-101204. Epub 2013 Feb 6.

¹ Science of Research and Technology Branch, National Cancer Institute, , Rockville, Maryland, USA.

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Keywords: Biotechnology & Bioinformatics; Preventive Medicine.

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