Text Messaging To Stop Smoking

A pair of related studies on smoking cessation have isolated the brain regions most active in controlling urges to smoke and demonstrated the effectiveness of text-messaging to measure and intervene in those urges.

Both projects by scientists at the University of Oregon and other institutions used the same group of test subjects ? 27 heavy smokers recruited from the American Lung Associations Freedom From Smoking program in Los Angeles.

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