Study evaluates mobile telephone interventions for socioeconomically disadvantaged smokers

Abstract

Socioeconomically disadvantaged (SED) smokers who receive text message support in addition to nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) are no more likely to abstain from smoking than those given NRT alone, according to the results of a group randomized clinical trial. However, the researchers concluded that adding telephonedelivered counseling for smokers who also receive NRT and text messages can double the percentage who quit smoking.