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torsdag, november 15, 2012

Text Messages May Help Smokers Quit

Aetna InteliHealths nyhetsbrev rekommenderas å det varmaste (adress nertill) . Här utdrag från det senaste:

News Review From Harvard Medical School -- Text Messages May Help Smokers Quit
Advice and encouragement from text messages may help people quit smoking, a review of research suggests. The study was done by the Cochrane Collaboration. This is an independent group that offers expert review of medical research on various topics. In this case, the reviewers looked at 5 earlier studies. They included about 9,000 people. All of the studies randomly divided people into 2 groups. One group received regular text and/or video messages to help them quit smoking. The other group received a different form of support. People in this group got occasional phone calls or texts. After 6 months, people who received the text or video messages were more likely to be still not smoking. In the largest study, involving 6,000 people, about 9% of those in the text group were still not smoking after 6 months. About 4% of those who did not receive texts were smoke-free. The Cochrane Review published the study. BestHealth, a news service of BMJ.com, wrote about it. /Aetna InteliHealth

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