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Recognition of Smoking Gesture Using Smart Watch Technology [PDF]
Diseases resulting from prolonged smoking are the most common preventable causes of death in the world today. In this report we investigate the success of utilizing accelerometer sensors in smart watches to identify smoking gestures. Early identification of smoking gestures can help to initiate the appropriate intervention method and prevent relapses ...
arxiv
Smoking in inflammatory bowel diseases: Good, bad or ugly? [PDF]
Smoking is an important environmental factor in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), having different effects in ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD).
Lakatos, László+2 more
core +1 more source
Incentives for smoking cessation.
BACKGROUND Financial incentives, monetary or vouchers, are widely used in an attempt to precipitate, reinforce and sustain behaviour change, including smoking cessation.
C. Notley+5 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
Mobile phone text messaging and app-based interventions for smoking cessation.
BACKGROUND Mobile phone-based smoking cessation support (mCessation) offers the opportunity to provide behavioural support to those who cannot or do not want face-to-face support. In addition, mCessation can be automated and therefore provided affordably
R. Whittaker+5 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
Understanding the tobacco retail environment; next frontier for UK tobacco control
Background and challenges to implementation The UK is now a 'dark market' as such the supply chain and availability of tobacco has become a more important part of the marketing mix for tobacco companies. A key tactic of tobacco companies has been to
Deborah Arnott+2 more
doaj +1 more source
Video Smoke Detection Based on Deep Saliency Network [PDF]
Video smoke detection is a promising fire detection method especially in open or large spaces and outdoor environments. Traditional video smoke detection methods usually consist of candidate region extraction and classification, but lack powerful characterization for smoke.
arxiv
Pooled Time Series Modeling Reveals Smoking Habit Memory Pattern [PDF]
Smoking is a habit that is hard to break because nicotine is highly addictive and smoking behavior is strongly linked to multiple daily activities and routines.
Canales, Juan J.+7 more
core +2 more sources
21st-century hazards of smoking and benefits of cessation in the United States.
BACKGROUND Extrapolation from studies in the 1980s suggests that smoking causes 25% of deaths among women and men 35 to 69 years of age in the United States.
P. Jha+7 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
Background Smoking is an important risk factor for mental health-related problems. Numerous studies have supported a bi-directional association between cigarette smoking and depression.
Elisardo Becoña+5 more
doaj +1 more source
Accounting for Smoking in Forecasting Mortality and Life Expectancy [PDF]
Smoking is one of the main risk factors that has affected human mortality and life expectancy over the past century. Smoking accounts for a large part of the nonlinearities in the growth of life expectancy and of the geographic and sex differences in mortality.
arxiv