Determinants of physical activity promotion by smoking cessation advisors as an aid for quitting: Support for the Transtheoretical Model [PDF]
Objectives: Physical activity (PA) can reduce cigarette cravings and aid quitting but little is known about its promotion by smoking cessation advisors. This study aimed to: (1) determine the extent to which smoking cessation advisors promote PA; and (2)
Adrian H. Taylor+12 more
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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
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Aim To evaluate the differences, following intervention training, in the knowledge, attitudes, role perception, self‐capacity and intention of urology staff to counsel inpatients on smoking cessation. Design A descriptive evaluation study of intervention
Ronit Tsemach+2 more
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The influence of societal individualism on a century of tobacco use: modelling the prevalence of smoking [PDF]
Smoking of tobacco is predicted to cause approximately six million deaths worldwide in 2014. Responding effectively to this epidemic requires a thorough understanding of how smoking behaviour is transmitted and modified. Here, we present a new mathematical model of the social dynamics that cause cigarette smoking to spread in a population.
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A Bayesian Time-Varying Effect Model for Behavioral mHealth Data [PDF]
The integration of mobile health (mHealth) devices into behavioral health research has fundamentally changed the way researchers and interventionalists are able to collect data as well as deploy and evaluate intervention strategies. In these studies, researchers often collect intensive longitudinal data (ILD) using ecological momentary assessment ...
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Motivating Parents of Kids with Asthma to Quit Smoking: The Effect of the Teachable Moment and Increasing Intervention Intensity Using a Longitudinal Randomized Trial Design [PDF]
Aims—We tested two aims: 1) The Teachable Moment (TM): whether second hand smoke exposure (SHSe) feedback motivates cessation in parents of children with asthma vs.
Borrelli, Belinda, Tooley, Erin M.
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Key Points Question Do the privacy policies of popular smartphone applications (apps) for depression and smoking cessation describe accurately whether data will be processed by commercial third parties?
K. Huckvale, J. Torous, M. Larsen
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The association between antitobacco advertising and calls to a tobacco Russian Quitline
Background Russian Quitline was organized in 2011, National Tobacco Control mass media campaigns are held with 2012 to 2016, National Tobacco Control Law was passed in 2013.This study examines the effects of media campaign on telephone quitline for ...
Olga Sukhovskaya, Petr Yablonskiy
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Gendered factors for heated tobacco product use: Focus group interviews with Korean adults
Introduction Since June 2017, heated tobacco products (HTPs) have been on sale in Korea, comprising approximately 11.8% of total tobacco sales in April 2019.
Kwanwook Kim, Jinyoung Kim, Hong-Jun Cho
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Association of Smoking Cessation With Subsequent Risk of Cardiovascular Disease.
Importance The time course of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk after smoking cessation is unclear. Risk calculators consider former smokers to be at risk for only 5 years.
Meredith S. Duncan+5 more
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