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This chapter offers a brief glance at smoking cessation strategies with the intention of being of practical use to workers in the field now. It is thus neither academic in tone nor exhaustive and inevitably reflects my own assessment of the current state of the art. It is my view, for example, that although we could continue trying to improve techniques for use in intensive treatment programs, we would be using our resources more responsibly if we concentrated on developing and disseminating what we already know. Leventhal and Cleary (1980) suggested more than 5 years ago that refinements of current approaches were unlikely significantly to increase success rates and that future work should consider theories of nicotine dependence. I agree with this and feel that, in the intervening 5 years, important and useful work has been published that has put potentially useful tools in the hands of workers.
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Raw, M. (1986). Smoking Cessation Strategies. In: Miller, W.R., Heather, N. (eds) Treating Addictive Behaviors. Applied Clinical Psychology, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2191-0_13
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