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Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019 BACKGROUND Hypnotherapy is widely promoted as a method for aiding smoking cessation. It is intended to act on underlying impulses to weaken the desire to smoke, or strengthen the will to stop.
Joanne Barnes +4 more
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Smoking Cessation Interventions After Lung Cancer Screening Guideline Change [PDF]
, 2020 Introduction: Recent guideline changes for lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography recommend smoking cessation interventions be done in parallel with screening. The purpose of this study is to determine the post-guideline rates of smoking
Chung, Sukyung +3 more
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Narrative Health Communication and Behavior Change: The Influence of Exemplars in the News on Intention to Quit Smoking. [PDF]
, 2012 This study investigated psychological mechanisms underlying the effect of narrative health communication on behavioral intention. Specifically, the study examined how exemplification in news about successful smoking cessation affects recipients\u27 ...
Bigman, Cabral A. +4 more
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Fragility Measures For Typical Cases [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 The fragility index is a clinically motivated metric designed to supplement the $p$ value during hypothesis testing. The measure relies on two pillars: selecting cases to have their outcome modified and modifying the outcomes. The measure is interesting but the case selection suffers from a drawback which can hamper its interpretation.
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Smoking Cessation, Weight Change, Type 2 Diabetes, and Mortality
New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 Background Whether weight gain after smoking cessation attenuates the health benefits of quitting is unclear. Methods In three cohort studies involving men and women in the United States, we identified those who had reported quitting smoking and we ...
Yang Hu +9 more
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A ‘Cut-Down-To-Stop’ intervention for smokers who find it hard to quit: a qualitative evaluation
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background English Stop Smoking Services primarily deliver behavioural interventions to support abrupt quit attempts. Recent evidence suggests an alternative approach could be offered to clients involving a more gradual reduction of cigarettes smoked ...
J. Robinson +3 more
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Frontiers in Oral Health, 2023 Integration of smoking cessation program into routine oral health care has been advocated by World Health Organization since it brings extensive benefits to oral health. By tobacco cessation, patients are less prone to progression of periodontal disease,
H. L. Chan +3 more
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Estimating dynamic treatment regimes for ordinal outcomes with household interference: Application in household smoking cessation [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The focus of precision medicine is on decision support, often in the form of dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs), which are sequences of decision rules. At each decision point, the decision rules determine the next treatment according to the patient's baseline characteristics, the information on treatments and responses accrued by that point, and the ...
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Antidepressants for smoking cessation
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2023 The pharmacological profiles and mechanisms of antidepressants are varied. However, there are common reasons why they might help people to stop smoking tobacco: nicotine withdrawal can produce short-term low mood that antidepressants may relieve; and some antidepressants may have a specific effect on neural pathways or receptors that underlie nicotine ...
Hajizadeh, A +6 more
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BMC Medical Genetics, 2018 Background The identification of variants in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunit genes associated with smoking phenotypes are increasingly important for prevention and treatment of nicotine dependence.
Paulo Roberto Xavier Tomaz +8 more
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