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Aversive smoking for smoking cessation [PDF]

open access: yesCochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 1997
Aversion therapy pairs the pleasurable stimulus of smoking a cigarette with some unpleasant stimulus. The objective is to extinguish the urge to smoke.This review has two aims. First, to determine the efficacy of rapid smoking and other aversive methods in helping smokers stop smoking.
Peter Hajek, Lindsay F Stead
openaire   +4 more sources

Smoking prevention class by physicians reduced smoking rates after 8 years

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2019
Objective Numerous studies have examined whether school smoking prevention education for minors can reduce smoking rates in later life, but no consensus has been established.
Masamitsu Endo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predictors of smoking relapse in a cohort of adolescents and young adults in Monastir (Tunisia)

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2013
Background Smoking prevalence in adolescents and young adults is substantially elevated in Tunisia. Moreover, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the effectiveness and associated factors in smoking cessation interventions among adolescents and young ...
Sana El Mhamdi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smoking Bans in the Presence of Social Interaction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper analyzes the welfare effects of a public smoking ban in bars. We construct a model that captures crucial features of bar life: competing bars, social interaction, and heterogenous preferences for a smoking ban.
Bauer, Christian, Lingens, Jörg
core   +2 more sources

Influence of family and friend smoking on intentions to smoke and smoking-related attitudes and refusal self-efficacy among 9-10 year old children from deprived neighbourhoods: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
BACKGROUND: Smoking often starts in early adolescence and addiction can occur rapidly. For effective smoking prevention there is a need to identify at risk groups of preadolescent children and whether gender-specific intervention components are necessary.
Fairclough, SJ   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Varenicline in smokers with severe or very severe COPD after 24 weeks of treatment. A descriptive analysis: VALUE study

open access: yesMonaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2017
A large number of COPD patients are smokers. The particular characteristics of this group as well as their need to quit usually require psychological counselling and pharmacological treatment to achieve abstinence and, often, intensively.
Carlos A. Jiménez-Ruiz   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence and determinants of susceptibility to cigarette smoking among school students in Pakistan: secondary analysis of Global Youth Tobacco Survey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background: Susceptibility to smoke has been recognized as a strong predictor of smoking experimentation and taking up regular smoking habit. The identification of smoking susceptible individuals and its determinants is important in the efforts to ...
Aslam, Syeda Kanwal   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The Health consequences of smoking—50 years of progress : a report of the Surgeon General

open access: yes, 2014
The scientific evidence is incontrovertible: inhaling tobacco smoke, particularly from cigarettes, is deadly. Since the first Surgeon General’s Report in 1964, evidence has linked smoking to diseases of nearly all organs of the body.
B. Lushniak   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Physician advice on avoiding secondhand smoke exposure and referrals for smoking cessation services

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2012
Background Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure causes premature death and disease. Eliminating smoking in indoor spaces is the only way to fully protect nonsmokers from SHS exposure, and also contributes to helping smokers quit smoking.
Judy Kruger   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Deep Domain Adaptation Based Video Smoke Detection using Synthetic Smoke Images [PDF]

open access: yesFire Safety Journal 93C (2017) pp. 53-59, 2017
In this paper, a deep domain adaptation based method for video smoke detection is proposed to extract a powerful feature representation of smoke. Due to the smoke image samples limited in scale and diversity for deep CNN training, we systematically produced adequate synthetic smoke images with a wide variation in the smoke shape, background and ...
arxiv   +1 more source

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