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Towards the Objective Speech Assessment of Smoking Status based on Voice Features: A Review of the Literature [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
In smoking cessation clinical research and practice, objective validation of self-reported smoking status is crucial for ensuring the reliability of the primary outcome, that is, smoking abstinence. Speech signals convey important information about a speaker, such as age, gender, body size, emotional state, and health state.
arxiv  

Understanding Māori youth smoking : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University [PDF]

, 2007
The understanding of Māori youth smoking from a qualitative perspective has been neglected in the literature. While there has been a wide scope of research detailing the promoting and protective factors that put Māori youth at risk to smoking, there ...
Nepe, Melanie
core  

Light smoking at base-line predicts a higher mortality risk to women than to men; evidence from a cohort with long follow-up [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: There is conflicting evidence as to whether smoking is more harmful to women than to men. The UK Cotton Workers’ Cohort was recruited in the 1960s and contained a high proportion of men and women smokers who were well matched in terms of age,
AF Gazdar, B Rostron, C Bain, C Griffiths, C Kiyohara, CP Nelson, D Clayton, DM McElvenny, DP Tashkin, DR Trinidad, E Prescott, EK Silverman, HA Powell, International Early Lung Cancer Action Program Investigators, J Stare, J Stare, JT Hodgson, K Jamrozik, K Pirie, L Mucha, LE Curry, M Grundtvig, M Pohar Perme, Margaret A Hurley, MJ Jarvis, MK Han, ND Freedman, PJ Marang-van de Mheen, R Doll, R Peto, RR Huxley, S Nilson, SAE Peters, W Lazonick, WN Venables   +34 more
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Validation of new predictors of mortality and BODE index variants in patients with COPD at moderate altitude

ERJ Open Research
Background COPD ranks as the third leading global cause of mortality. Despite the widespread use of the BODE index and its variants for mortality prediction, their accuracy may be affected by factors like ethnicity, altitude and regional disparities ...
Robinson Robles-Hernández, Gustavo I. Centeno-Saenz, Alejandra Ramírez-Venegas, Ireri Thirion-Romero, Rafael Hernández-Zenteno, Sandra P. Guinto-Ramírez, María C. Maya-García, Diana Villegas-Trejo, Francisco Montiel-López, Lila M. Cordero-Silis, Rogelio Pérez-Padilla   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Protocol for the Smoking, Nicotine and Pregnancy (SNAP) trial: double-blind, placebo-randomised, controlled trial of nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy [PDF]

, 2007
Background: Smoking in pregnancy remains a public health challenge. Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is effective for smoking cessation in non-pregnant people, but because women metabolise nicotine and cotinine much faster in pregnancy, it is unclear ...
A Charlton, AH Johnson, Anonymous, B Kapur, Christine Godfrey, Clare Mannion, D Dempsey, DA Dempsey, E McColl, Health Development Agency Expert Panel, HK Hegaard, HP Jones, J Britton, Jim Thornton, John Britton, JR Hughes, K Wisborg, Kim Watts, L Batstra, L Owen, MC Fiore, ME Orme, MG Thomas, Michael WH Coughtrie, N Marlow, National Institute for Clinical Excellence, Neil Marlow, NF Woolacott, P Kind, R West, R Windsor, RA Windsor, S Johnson, Sarah Lewis, Smoking and the young, SRNT Subcommittee on Biochemical Verification, T Coleman, TF Heatherton, Tim Coleman, Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians   +39 more
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E-Cigarettes: Use, Effects on Smoking, Risks, and Policy Implications

Annual Review of Public Health, 2018
Since e-cigarettes appeared in the mid-2000s, some practitioners, researchers, and policy makers have embraced them as a safer alternative to conventional cigarettes and an effective way to stop smoking.
S. Glantz, David W. Bareham
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Development of the health and economic consequences of smoking interactive model [PDF]

, 2001
Objective-To describe the health and economic consequences of smoking model, a user friendly, web based tool, designed to estimate the health and economic outcomes associated with smoking and the benefits of smoking cessation.
Godfrey, C, Hogue, S L, Kennedy, L M, Orme, M E, Paine, A C   +4 more
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The collective dynamics of smoking in a large social network.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2008
BACKGROUND The prevalence of smoking has decreased substantially in the United States over the past 30 years. We examined the extent of the person-to-person spread of smoking behavior and the extent to which groups of widely connected people quit ...
N. Christakis, James H. Fowler
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cross-sectional personal network analysis of adult smoking in rural areas [PDF]

R. Soc. Open Sci. 11, 241459 (2024)
While research on adolescent smoking is extensive, little attention has been given to smoking behaviors among rural middle-aged and older adults. This study examines the role of personal networks and sociodemographic factors in predicting smoking status in a rural Romanian community.
arxiv   +1 more source

Social capital and cigarette smoking among Latinos in the United States [PDF]

, 2012
This paper presents the results of analyses conducted to examine if social capital indicators were associated with current cigarette smoking and with quitting smoking among a national representative sample of Latinos living in the United States. Data are
Delva, Jorge, Horner, Pilar, Li, Shijian
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