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Effect of self-administered auricular acupressure on smoking cessation --a pilot study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, February 2012
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (87th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

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Title
Effect of self-administered auricular acupressure on smoking cessation --a pilot study
Published in
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, February 2012
DOI 10.1186/1472-6882-12-11
Pubmed ID
Authors

Lawrence Leung, Troy Neufeld, Scott Marin

Abstract

Tobacco smoking is still a worldwide health risk. Current pharmacotherapies have at best, a success rate of no more than 50%. Auricular (ear) acupressure has been purported to be beneficial in achieving smoking cessation in some studies, while in others has been deemed insignificant. We hereby describe the protocol for a three-arm randomised controlled trial to examine the possible benefits of self-administered acupressure for smoking cessation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
New Zealand 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Unknown 100 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 22 21%
Researcher 13 13%
Student > Master 9 9%
Other 7 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 7%
Other 16 16%
Unknown 29 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 32 31%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 8%
Psychology 7 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 2%
Other 11 11%
Unknown 32 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 July 2012.
All research outputs
#3,043,842
of 22,663,150 outputs
Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#577
of 3,617 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,396
of 155,494 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#12
of 36 outputs
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