Is stress management training a useful addition to physician advice and nicotine replacement therapy during smoking cessation in women? Results of a randomized trial.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Therapeutic nicotine (patch, non-peptide) in this randomized controlled trial publication.

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 332 women taking part.

PubMed indexes the participants as adults, middle-aged adults and older adults, women only.

Either UC (physician advice and nicotine replacement therapy) or UC plus an eight-session group SM training program (coping skills development relevant to smoking-specific and generic stressors).

How the Study Was Run

The design is described as randomized.

Because people in this Therapeutic nicotine (patch, non-peptide) study were split into groups at random, differences between the groups are less likely to reflect who happened to join each one.

Smoking cessation clinics located within two tertiary care centers in Ottawa, Ontario.

Point prevalence abstinence 2 and 12 months after study intake.

A secondary outcome of interest was change in perceived stress during the intervention period.

What Was Measured

PubMed files the paper under topics including Ontario, Referral and Consultation, Smoking Cessation, Stress, Psychological and Tobacco Use Disorder.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Therapeutic nicotine (patch, non-peptide) in 332 women.

With several hundred people or more, it is a fairly large study for this kind of research.

The abstract goes on to report its results in about 7 sentences; this page does not restate them, so read the paper for the findings and their limits.

The publication is from 2005 (American journal of health promotion : AJHP), a journal based in United States.

More context: the Therapeutic nicotine (patch, non-peptide) compound page, all human trials.