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A Ten-Week and Ten-Month Follow-Up Study of 298 Adult Participants in a Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking

Douglass S. Thompson, MD; Thurlow R. Wilson, PhD

JAMA. 1966;196(12):1048-1052.

Abstract
Two hundred and ninety-eight cigarette smokers attended the first session of the Five Day Plan to Stop Smoking; 201 of them also attended the fifth session. Of the latter group, 146 (72.6%) had not smoked a cigarette during the preceding 24 hours. Ten weeks after the plan, 287 of the 298 original participants were contacted by telephone: 84 (29.4%) had not smoked a cigarette during the preceding seven days. Ten months after the plan, 49 participants from a previously selected subgroup of 50 who attended the first and fifth sessions were contacted by telephone: 41 were still smoking cigarettes but eight (16%) had not smoked a cigarette since the plan ended. The "therapeutic success" rate of the plan (discontinuance of cigarette smoking ten months after the plan) was 16%.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Dr. Thompson); the Student Health Service (Dr. Thompson) and Department of Psychology (Dr. Wilson), University of Pittsburgh; and the Planning and Research Division, Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Newark, NJ (Dr. Wilson).

Footnotes
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