Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Switching to smokeless tobacco as a smoking cessation method: evidence from the 2000 National Health Interview Survey | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research Switching to smokeless tobacco as a smoking cessation method evidence from the 2000 National Health Interview Survey Brad Rodu 1 and Carl V Phillips2 Open Access Address Department of Medicine School of Medicine University of Louisville Louisville KY USA and 2Department of Public Health Sciences School of Public Health University of Alberta Edmonton AB Canada Email Brad Rodu - Carl V Phillips - Corresponding author Published 23 May 2008 Received 20 March 2008 Harm Reduction Journal 2008 5 18 doi 1477-7517-5-18 Accepted 23 May 2008 This article is available from http content 5 1 18 2008 Rodu and Phillips licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Although smokeless tobacco ST use has played a major role in the low smoking prevalence among Swedish men there is little information at the population level about ST as a smoking cessation aid in the . Methods We used the 2000 National Health Interview Survey to derive population estimates for the number of smokers who had tried twelve methods in their most recent quit attempt and for the numbers and proportions who were former or current smokers at the time of the survey. Results An estimated 359 000 men switched to smokeless tobacco in their most recent quit attempt. This method had the highest proportion of successes among those attempting it 73 representing 261 000 successful quitters switchers . In comparison the nicotine patch was used by an estimated million men in their most recent quit attempt and almost one million 35 were former
