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Many patients who smoke prior to diagnoses of cancer of any type continue to do so after their diagnoses. In this trial, conducted at two U.S. comprehensive cancer centers, 300 patients (median age, 58; mostly white) with recently diagnosed cancer who continued to smoke were randomized to intensive counseling and medication use or to standard treatment. Most patients had lung, breast, genitourinary, head and neck, or gastrointestinal cancer (60% were considered to be smoking related). The intervention included 11 telephone counseling sessions during 6 months and free smoking-cessation medication for 12 weeks. Standard-treatment patients received 4 telephone counseling sessions and were advised about potential medication use.
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