A randomized trial of telephone counseling with adult moist snuff users
Raymond G Boyle1, Nicolaas P Pronk, Christopher J Enstad
1HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 55440, USA. Raymond.Boyle@HealthPartners.com
Objective:
To evaluate telephone counseling for moist snuff use.
Methods:
We recruited 221 adult males using snuff and randomized them into a telephone-counseling intervention or a quit-manual comparison group. Subjects were contacted by mail at 3 and 6 months to complete a 4-page follow-up questionnaire.
Results:
A significantly higher proportion of subjects randomized to the intervention quit tobacco at each time point compared to the comparison group.
Conclusions:
With appropriate staff training, moist snuff and other types of nonsmoked tobacco should be added to the state-funded smoking cessation quit lines started in recent years.
