Clinical Review
Carbon Monoxide Monitoring
Objective Evaluation of Smoking Cessation
Fed Pract. 2004 August;21(8):31
Author(s):
McDermott WF
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Walter F. McDermott, PhD
Dr. McDermott is a staff clinical psychologist in the mental health section of the Jacksonville VA Outpatient Clinic, Jacksonville, FL.
Responding to the deficit of evaluative "hard data" on smoking cessation treatments, this study used CO monitoring to measure progress in a VA stop smoking clinic—as well as to address several controversies in smoking cessation research.