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The editors have made minor changes to the text of our response to
Professor Prochaska and for the most part these are for the better.
However, the final sentence of the second paragraph is meaningless as it
stands. It should say: On this basis, it seems more likely that the
smoking cessation expert system for adolescents, the only one that can be
compared with the system for adults, should be more successful and require
fewer sessions, yet we found no effect.
(The error is to omit smoking cessation).
Competing interests:
No competing interests
17 February 2000
Paul Aveyard
Lecturer in Public Health Medicine
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham
Correction
Editor
The editors have made minor changes to the text of our response to
Professor Prochaska and for the most part these are for the better.
However, the final sentence of the second paragraph is meaningless as it
stands. It should say: On this basis, it seems more likely that the
smoking cessation expert system for adolescents, the only one that can be
compared with the system for adults, should be more successful and require
fewer sessions, yet we found no effect.
(The error is to omit smoking cessation).
Competing interests: No competing interests