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Vol.1, No.3, 73-79 (2011) Open Journal of Preventive Medicine doi:10.4236/ojpm.2011.13011 Smoking reduction did not promote future smoking cessation in a general population 1* 1 1 1,2 Charlotta Pisinger , Mette Aadahl , Ulla Toft , Torben Jørgensen 1Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, The Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark; * Corresponding Author: chpi@regionh.dk 2Faculty of Health Science, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark. Received 21 August 2011; revised 28 September 2011; accepted 14 October 2011. ABSTRACT future smoking cessation. Introduction: Smoking reduction (SR) has been Keywords: Smoking Cessation; Smoking introduced as a strategy for smokers who are Reduction; Tobacco Consumption unwilling or unable to quit. We wanted to investi tigate whether SR at one-year follow-up increased 1. INTRODUCTION the probability of abstinence from smoking at three and five-year follow-up. Methods: we in- Smoking is still the leading preventable cause of death cluded a random sample from a general popu- in the western countries [1,2]. Smoking reduction (SR), lation, the Inter99 study, Copenhagen, Denmark. i.e. a decrease in number of cigarettes smoked daily, has A total of 1975 participants were daily smokers been introduced as a strategy for the majority of smokers (from both the intervention and the control who are not motivated to quit in near future or unable to grou