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Smoking and quit attempts during pregnancy and postpartum: a longitudinal UK cohort. [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2017
OBJECTIVES: Pregnancy motivates women to try stopping smoking, but little is known about timing of their quit attempts and how quitting intentions change during pregnancy and postpartum.
Bowker, Katharine, Brotherton, Emma, Coleman, Tim, Cooper, Sue, Leonardi-Bee, Jo, Naughton, Felix, Orton, Sophie, Pickett, Kate E, Sutton, Stephen, Ussher, Michael, Vanderbloemen, Laura   +10 more
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The role of fear of COVID-19 in motivation to quit smoking and reductions in cigarette smoking: a preliminary investigation of at-risk cigarette smokers

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 2021
Preliminary data suggest that cigarette smokers could have an increased mortality risk from the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), and that certain factors (e.g., increased age, medical comorbidities) can also increase risk of poor coronavirus disease ...
Alexandra K. Gold, Danielle L. Hoyt, Megan A. Milligan, Michele Hiserodt, Jake Samora, T. Leyro, M. Zvolensky, M. Otto   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Are smokers scared by COVID-19 risk? How fear and comparative optimism influence smokers’ intentions to take measures to quit smoking

PLoS ONE, 2021
Research suggests that smoking may compound the risk of serious health problems to smokers who contract COVID-19. This study examines whether and how exposure to news stories reporting the severe COVID-19 risk to smokers may influence smokers’ emotional ...
H. Duong, Zachary B. Massey, Victoria Churchill, Lucy Popova   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Association of the COVID‐19 lockdown with smoking, drinking and attempts to quit in England: an analysis of 2019–20 data

Addiction, 2020
Aim To examine changes in smoking, drinking and quitting/reduction behaviour following the COVID‐19 lockdown in England. Design/setting Monthly cross‐sectional surveys representative of the adult population in England, aggregated before (April 2019 ...
S. Jackson, C. Garnett, L. Shahab, M. Oldham, Jamie Brown   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Smoking and intention to quit in deprived areas of Glasgow: is it related to housing improvements and neighbourhood regeneration because of improved mental health? [PDF]

, 2012
Background: People living in areas of multiple deprivation are more likely to smoke and less likely to quit smoking. This study examines the effect on smoking and intention to quit smoking for those who have experienced housing improvements (HI) in ...
Bond, L., Clark, J., Egan, M., Kearns, A., Tannahill, C.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Gender difference and effect of pharmacotherapy: findings from a smoking cessation service

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Smoking cessation services are available in England to provide assistance to those wishing to quit smoking. Data from one such service were analysed in order to investigate differences in quit rate between males and females prescribed with ...
N. J. Walker, H. C. van Woerden, V. Kiparoglou, Y. Yang, H. Robinson, E. Croghan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rates of Smoking Cessation at 6 and 12 Months after a Clinical Tobacco Smoking Cessation Intervention in Head and Neck Cancer Patients in Northern Ontario, Canada

Current Oncology, 2022
Smoking during cancer treatment is associated with reduced treatment response and cancer recurrence in patients with tobacco-related cancers. The purpose of this study was to examine smoking characteristics in head and neck cancer patients (n = 503) with
Stacey A. Santi, Michael S. C. Conlon, Margaret L. Meigs, Stacey M. Davidson, Kyle Mispel-Beyer, Deborah P. Saunders   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trends in smoking and quitting in China from 1993 to 2003: National Health Service Survey data [PDF]

, 2010
OBJECTIVE: China has about 350 million smokers, more commonly men. Using data from National Health Service Surveys conducted in 1993, 1998 and 2003, we (i) estimated trends in smoking prevalence and cessation according to sociodemographic variables and ...
Boutayeb, Chen, Critchley, Fichtenberg, Gallus, Gao, Gao, Guindon, Hesketh, Hopkins, Hu, Hu, Hu, Hu, Hughes, Julia Alison Critchley, Jun Gao, Juncheng Qian, Lam, Lancaster, Ledford, Ling Xu, Liu, Min Cai, Murray, Niu, Patrick, Peto, Shenglan Tang, Sowden, Stead, Stead, Stead, Sun, Sussman, Tang, Tomlinson, Xin, Xu, Yang, Yang, Yang, Yang, Yang, Yang, Yang, Yuan   +46 more
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Effect of socioeconomic status on smoking cessation behavior in selected African countries: Secondary analysis of Global Adult Tobacco Survey data (2014–2018)

PLoS ONE, 2022
Introduction Tobacco use remains a global public health challenge. While studies report that smoking cessation reduces the risk of cancer and other NCDs, evidence is scarce in African region on socio-economic determinants of smoking cessation behavior ...
Zinto Gabsile Vilane, Prakash Babu Kodali, Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Stopping smoking prior to elective hip and knee surgery: the impact of visiting a community pharmacist for tobacco management

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Aim To have patients quit smoking prior to elective total joint arthroplasty surgery. Objective Smokers have twice the rate of deep surgical site infections and three times the rate of readmission to hospital after arthroplasty than non-smokers.
Barry Finegan, Fadi Hammal, Lauren Beaupre   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source