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Fish, Maren Olsen, Shelby Reed Project Staff: Jennifer Chapman (Project Coordinator), Margaret Falkovic and Karen Juntilla (Quit Coaches), Teresa Howard (Research Assistant), Amy Jeffreys, Theodore Berkowitz, and Yangong Li (Biostatisticians), Jenny Legge (Clinical Pharmacist), Avi Alkon and Lesa Powell (Programmers) Operational Partners: Kim Hamlett-Berry (VA Office of Smoking and Health) and Peg Dundon (VA National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention) Brief Description: The Quit Smoking Telehealth Trial is a comparative effectiveness study with a two-group design in which 350 Veteran smokers with depression and chronic medical illness are randomized to either: 1) smoking cessation plus adjunctive behavioral mood management (SMK-MM group), an intervention that includes a proactive tele-health intervention that combines evidence-based smoking cessation counseling augmented with behavioral mood management and a tele-medicine clinic for accessing nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), or 2) smoking cessation telephone counseling control (SMK CONTROL), a contact-equivalent control that provides the same smoking cessation telephone counseling intervention augmented with health education (instead of mood management) and a tele-medicine clinic for accessing NRT

Fifty swallowed the equivalent of about a clove a day of garlic, and fifty took placebo pills

It has been traditionally consumed across various regions in India for decades, often seen as a socially acceptable form of tobacco use

The majority dont use tobacco, and the practice is generally on the decline

Youth e-cigarette use continues to rise

Quit Much more is known about the science of tobacco cessation now than ever before