Promoting smoking cessation in Russian Karelia: a 1-year community-based program with quasi-experimental evaluation

• Published in: Health Promotion International
• Main Authors: McAlister, Alfred L., Gumina, Tamara, Urjanheimo, Eeva-Liisa, Laatikainen, Tiina, Uhanov, Mihail, Oganov, Rafael, Puska, Pekka
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2000
• Subjects: ORIGINAL PAPERS; Pitkäranta; karelia*
• Online Access: http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/15/2/109; https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/15.2.109

Cigarette smoking is a major contributor to the East–West health gap in Europe, a situation which is particularly evident in comparisons of mortality and health behavior in Finnish and Russian Karelia. With technical assistance from the North Karelia Project in Finland, a Quit and Win smoking cessat...