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Flow chart. In total, 82 515 smokers were registered in the SCDB and 36 228 were excluded, leaving 46 287 smokers in the study population. Of them, 26% of the study population were lost to follow-up, leaving 34 235 smokers included in the outcome analyses. SCDB, Smoking Cessation Database.
