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Okay, so for a, this study employs a randomized controlled trial design, so that's rct design.
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And in this design, participants are randomly assigned to either the experimental group or the control group, and randomization helps to control for confounding variables and biases, which makes it easier to attribute any differences in outcome to the treatment itself.
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And for b so the treatment is the smoking cessation program and the two distinct approaches are the happy the experimental program which is the happy and the intervention and the control groups approach which consists of a self -help booklet and the number of the number of levels that we have is two the first level is the experimental program, which is happy ending intervention, and the second level is the control condition, which is the self -help booklet.
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Booklet.
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Now the response variable in this study is the abstinence from smoking.
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Abstinence from smoking defined especially as not even a puff of smoke for the last 7 days assessed after 12 months.
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Now for the statistics reported by the authors, we have the from the experimental program, 22 .3 % of the participants reported abstinence, and from the control group, we have the 13 .1 % of the participants reporting abstinence...