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Article: Computer Program Helps Women Kick Nicotine Habit.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- April 19, 2001
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2001 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Despite massive mandatory warning labels on cigarette packages and massive anti-smoking advertising campaigns, American women are lighting up in greater numbers and now account for 39% of all smoking-related deaths in the United States, the U.S. Surgeon General warned in a March 27, 2001, report.
Anna McDaniel, DNS. RN associate professor at the Indiana University School of Nursing at Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis and an affiliated scientist at the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, has developed and tested "A New Beginning," an interactive smoking cessation computer program targeting low-income ...