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Proactive telephone counseling helps smokers quit regardless of how they are recruited to a telephone quitline, according to a study published online June 10th in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Smokers who use telephone counseling quitlines may do so in response to active recruitment methods, such as physician referral or direct mail or phone calls, or passive methods, such as ...

Proactive telephone counseling helps increase long-term smoking cessation
Proactive telephone counseling helps smokers quit regardless of how they are recruited to a telephone quitline, according to a study published online June 10th in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Genetic counseling may lessen cancer fears
BARCELONA, Spain, June 13 (UPI) -- People who have a family history of cancer react by either getting lots of tests, or don't get screened at all, researchers in Spain say.

'Quitlines' help smokers kick the habit
NEWCASTLE, Australia, June 13 (UPI) -- Telephone counseling -- so-called quitlines -- helps smokers quit cigarettes no matter how they are recruited, researchers in Australia say.