Working Paper: Phillips-Nissen-Rodu, Understanding the evidence about the comparative success of smoking cessation methods, ETC...

[RCHagy74]

Working Paper: Phillips-Nissen-Rodu, Understanding the evidence about the comparative success of smoking cessation methods: choice, second-order preferences, tobacco harm reduction, and other neglected considerations | EP-ology

A link to an update of the previous paper:

https://epology.files.wordpress.com...king-or-quitting-neglected-considerations.pdf


RCH

 

[RCHagy74]

Ack... Psychology!

Cross, garlic, silver, torches and pitchforks...

Ok, not so bad. I just have to read slowly to absorb it all.

 

[Kent C]

It would be nice to have the first version so as to see what changed.... but that link is now dead.

 

[Rossum]

Ack... Psychology!

Cross, garlic, silver, torches and pitchforks...

Kinda like economics, right?

 

[RCHagy74]

It would be nice to have the first version so as to see what changed.... but that link is now dead.

Yeh... I believe they yanked it when the redo went up.

Edit: here is a link to the 11.24.2014 pdf:


https://epology.files.wordpress.com...ing-the-evidence-about-cessation-methods1.pdf

I also saved it to my computer if that link disappears.

 

[RCHagy74]

Kinda like economics, right?

In the names of the gods, God, Allah, Gaia, Science and, and, and good old fashioned greenbacks I cast thee OUT!

What gets me about most of that stuff, they treat it like it is a science... when it is actually closer to an art.

Everyone sees something different.

 

[RCHagy74]

Oh, and the original thread from the original paper here on ECF:

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...king-paper-philips-nissen-rodu-must-read.html

 

[RCHagy74]

I am sorry... it was just to much:

Two of us (CVP, CMN) once planned a cessation intervention in which random smokers were approached by a university researcher (preferably an attractive member of the opposite sex to aid recall and enhance enrollment) and told “we are collecting details about successful quit-smoking stories; could we get your contact information so, just in case you quit in the next few months, we can learn your story?” The hypothesis was that even though we did not suggest to the subject that we were trying to assist quitting, this would not be significantly less effective than most other interventions because it provides the focusing moment that changes the Category 1 smoker from “I will quit soon” to “now is the right time.”

Sex sells... even in science!

 

[caramel]

Kinda like economics, right?

Must read:

http://www.amazon.ca/Debunking-Economics-Revised-Expanded-Dethroned/dp/1848139926

 

[Kent C]

Yeh... I believe they yanked it when the redo went up.

Edit: here is a link to the 11.24.2014 pdf:


https://epology.files.wordpress.com...ing-the-evidence-about-cessation-methods1.pdf

I also saved it to my computer if that link disappears.

Not seeing any substantive changes. Some elaboration on Categories on pg 11, and a few whacks at TC on 3 and 6 but not much else.

 

[RCHagy74]

Not seeing any substantive changes. Some elaboration on Categories on pg 11, and a few whacks at TC on 3 and 6 but not much else.

Hrumph. So dot i's, cross t's and make pretty for discussion amongst their peers basically. Wish they could have made it a discussion point for me... my head still hurts and I shall have to read it at least twice more to really understand it.

Thanks for the update.