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Evaluation of a Novel Difficulty of Smoking Cessation Phenotype Based on Number of Quit Attempts.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco - 1 Apr 2017
Stevens Victoria L, Jacobs Eric J, Gapstur Susan M, Carter Brian D, Gaudet Mia M, Westmaas J Lee, Patel Alpa V
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BACKGROUND: Numerous studies have sought to identify genes that influence the ability to quit smoking, but none found any that are consistently associated with smoking cessation. METHODS: We developed a novel difficulty of quitting smoking phenotype based on the extremes of the number of quit attempts needed to achieve successful abstinence: Easy quitters were defined as having achieved long-term (>1 year)...
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