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Kicking the cigarette habit. Can taking an antidepressan drug help cigarette smokers kick...

Kicking the cigarette habit. Can taking an antidepressan drug help cigarette smokers kick their habit? The New England Journal of Medicine (Oct. 23, 1997) published a study in which 615 smokers (all of whom wanted to give up smoking) were randomly assigned to receive either Zyban (an antidepressant) or a placebo (a dummy pill) for six weeks. Of the 309 patients who received Zyban, 71 were not smoking one year later. Of the 306 patients who received a placebo, 37 were not smoking one year later. Conduct a test of hypothesis (at α = .05 ) to answer the research question posed in the first sentence of this exercise.

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