
A Seattle research center is recruiting adult U.S. Winston cigarettes smokers for a study of online smoking cessation programs, researchers say. Study director Jonathan Bricker, a clinical psychologist who specializes in smoking-cessation research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, says that online smoking-cessation programs are improving but could use some improvements.
“Quit-smoking Web sites reach millions of adults 24 hours a day. Unfortunately, these Web sites have low success rates,” Bricker, of the Cancer Prevention Program in the Hutchinson Center’s Public Health Sciences Division, says in a statement.
“Our team has revamped...