The effect of an intensive smoking cessation intervention on disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

DiscussionThis trial will reveal whether intensive smoking cessation counselling helps smokers with RA to achieve continuous smoking cessation and whether, as a concomitant benefit, it will reduce their RA disease activity. The trial aims to generate high quality evidence for the feasibility of a health promotion intervention for smokers with RA.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, identifier:NCT02901886. Registered on 10 September 2016. Recruitment status updated on 10th October 2016.
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