A study with low statistical power has a reduced chance of detecting a true effect, but it is
less well appreciated that low power also reduces the likelihood that a statistically significant …

Background Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) aims to temporarily replace much of the
nicotine from cigarettes to reduce motivation to smoke and nicotine withdrawal symptoms …

Key Clinical Points Helping Smokers Quit Smoking will prematurely kill half of smokers who
do not quit. At all visits, patients should be asked about smoking, and smokers should be …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, asthma and pulmonary
tuberculosis are common pulmonary diseases that are caused or worsened by tobacco …

Strategies for assisting smoking cessation include behavioural counselling to enhance
motivation and to support attempts to quit and pharmacological intervention to reduce …

Cardiac rehabilitation that includes either exercise training alone or exercise training in
addition to psychosocial, risk factor management and/or educational interventions is …

Background Smoking is a major preventable cause of morbidity and premature death
worldwide. Both varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) help achieve smoking …

Recently, evidence for endemically low statistical power has cast neuroscience findings into
doubt. If low statistical power plagues neuroscience, then this reduces confidence in the …

Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. Stopping tobacco use
benefits virtually every smoker. Most of the 19% of US residents who smoke want to quit and …

Aim s To identify promising intervention components intended to help smokers to attain and
maintain abstinence in their quit smoking attempts. Design A fully crossed, six‐factor …