Clinical Efficacy of Telemedicine Compared to Face-to-Face Clinic Visits for Smoking Cessation: Multicenter Open-Label Randomized Controlled Noninferiority Trial

Akihiro Nomura   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD, PhD ;   Tomoyuki Tanigawa   ^{1, 4} , MD ;   Tomoyasu Muto   ⁵ , MSc ;   Takafumi Oga   ⁶ , MD ;   Yasushi Fukushima   ⁷ , MD ;   Arihiro Kiyosue   ⁸ , MD ;   Masaki Miyazaki   ⁹ , MD ;   Eisuke Hida   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Kohta Satake   ^{1, 5} , MPH, MBA, MD

¹ CureApp Institute, Karuizawa, Japan

² Innovative Clinical Research Center, Kanazawa University (iCREK), Kanazawa, Japan

³ Department of Cardiology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan

⁴ Graduate School of Public Health, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan

⁵ CureApp, Inc, Tokyo, Japan

⁶ Shinjuku Research Park Clinic, Tokyo, Japan

⁷ Fukuwa Clinic, Tokyo, Japan

⁸ Tokyo-eki Center Building Clinic, Tokyo, Japan

⁹ Miyazaki RC Clinic, Tokyo, Japan

¹⁰ Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan