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Impacts of cigarette smoking on immune responsiveness: Up and down or upside down?
OncoTarget, 2016 Cigarette smoking is associated with numerous diseases and poses a serious challenge to the current healthcare system worldwide. Smoking impacts both innate and adaptive immunity and plays dual roles in regulating immunity by either exacerbation of ...
Feifei Qiu +7 more
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Behavioral Couples Therapy for Smoking Cessation: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction—Behavioral couples therapy (BCT) has been found to improve long-term abstinence rates in alcohol- and substance-dependent populations but has not been tested for smoking cessation.
LaChance, Heather, Tooley, Erin M.
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Rural smokers : a prevention opportunity
, 2009 Background: Smoking is the largest single cause of preventable death and disease in Australia. This study describes smoking prevalence and the characteristics of rural smokers to guide general practitioners in targeting particular groups.Methods: Cross ...
Baird, Andrew +8 more
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Prevalence and attitudes of smoking among secondary school teachers in Hadramout coastal districts, Yemen [PDF]
, 2006 A descriptive KAP study about smoking was conducted in all the ten secondary schools in Hadramout coastal districts during October 2004 – April 2005 and a total of 317 teachers were enrolled in the study (182 male, 135 female teachers).
Bahaj Ali, Ahmed +1 more
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E-cigarettes: scientific and political controversies
Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018 Background and challenges to implementation The e-cigarette is touted as a disruptive technology that could make combustible cigarettes obsolete. The product, its science and politics though are controversial.
Yussuf Saloojee
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Motivational interviewing for smoking cessation.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015 BACKGROUND Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a directive patient-centred style of counselling, designed to help people to explore and resolve ambivalence about behaviour change.
Nicola Lindson-Hawley +2 more
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Canadian Respiratory Journal, 1995 Tobacco use, particularly cigarette smoking, is a major cause of preventable disease and premature death worldwide. Both smokers and nonsmokers exposed to environmental tobacco smoke are at risk. Cessation of smoking reduces risks. Although the addicting
Joint Committee on Smoking and Health
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Wildfire Smoke and Air Quality: How Machine Learning Can Guide Forest Management [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Prescribed burns are currently the most effective method of reducing the risk of widespread wildfires, but a largely missing component in forest management is knowing which fuels one can safely burn to minimize exposure to toxic smoke. Here we show how machine learning, such as spectral clustering and manifold learning, can provide interpretable ...
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Successful Cessation Programs that Reduce Comorbidity May Explain Surprisingly Low Smoking Rates Among Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients [PDF]
, 2020 A recent, non-peer-reviewed meta-analysis suggests that smoking may reduce the risk of hospitalization with COVID-19 because the prevalence of smoking among hospitalized COVID-19 is less than that of the general population.
Alvarez, R. Michael +7 more
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Nursing interventions for smoking cessation.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017 BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals, including nurses, frequently advise people to improve their health by stopping smoking. Such advice may be brief, or part of more intensive interventions.
V. Rice +3 more
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