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The unique contribution of e-cigarettes for tobacco harm reduction in supporting smoking relapse prevention

Harm Reduction Journal, 2018
Background We have little understanding of how vapers use e-cigarettes beyond cessation. E-cigarettes may have a role to play in reducing the health-related harms of tobacco smoking, through not only assisting smoking cessation attempts but also ...
Caitlin Notley, Emma Ward, Lynne Dawkins, Richard Holland   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reported patterns of vaping to support long-term abstinence from smoking: a cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of vapers

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background E-cigarettes are the most popular aid to smoking cessation attempts in England and the USA. This research examined associations between e-cigarette device characteristics and patterns of use, tobacco-smoking relapse, and smoking abstinence ...
Sarah Victoria Gentry, Emma Ward, Lynne Dawkins, Richard Holland, Caitlin Notley   +4 more
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Electronic cigarette use in New South Wales, Australia: reasons for use, place of purchase and use in enclosed and outdoor places

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2018
Objective: To monitor patterns of use of e‐cigarettes to understand their potential impact on the New South Wales (NSW) population in Australia. Methods: A cross‐sectional online survey was carried out with a sample of adults in NSW in February 2016 ...
Laura Twyman, Christina Watts, Kathy Chapman, Scott C. Walsberger   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Berlin's medical students' smoking habits, knowledge about smoking and attitudes toward smoking cessation counseling [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Diseases associated with smoking are a foremost cause of premature death in the world, both in developed and developing countries. Eliminating smoking can do more to improve health and prolong life than any other measure in the field of ...
Raupach Tobias, Groneberg, Jan David Alexander, Raupach, Tobias, Welte, Tobias, Meyer-Falcke, Andreas, Vitzthum Karin, Quarcoo David, Andreas Meyer-Falcke, Kusma Bianca, Bianca Kusma, Tobias Welte, Tobias Raupach, Stefanie Mache, Karin Vitzthum, David A Groneberg, Groneberg, David A., Vitzthum, Karin, Groneberg David A, Mache Stefanie, Meyer-Falcke Andreas, Kusma, Bianca, Welte Tobias, Mache, Stefanie, Quarcoo, David, David Quarcoo   +24 more
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E-cigarettes: online survey of UK smoking cessation practitioners

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2014
Background Use of e-cigarettes (inhalable vapour producing battery powered devices that aim to simulate tobacco cigarettes), is rising in a number of countries, but as yet none of these products are regulated as medicinal devices or available as smoking ...
Rosemary Hiscock, Maciej Lukasz Goniewicz, Andy McEwen, Susan Murray, Deborah Arnott, Martin Dockrell, Linda Bauld   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Picture Me Smokefree: A Qualitative Study Using Social Media and Digital Photography to Engage Young Adults in Tobacco Reduction and Cessation

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2015
BackgroundYoung adults have high rates of tobacco use compared to other subpopulations, yet there are relatively few tobacco interventions specifically targeted to this group. Picture Me Smokefree is an online tobacco reduction and cessation intervention
Haines-Saah, Rebecca J, Kelly, Mary T, Oliffe, John L, Bottorff, Joan L   +3 more
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Electronic Cigarette Usage Patterns and Perceptions in Adult Australians

Toxics, 2023
Despite their increasing popularity, and Australia’s unique regulatory environment, how and why Australian adults use e-cigarettes and their perceptions of their safety, efficacy and regulation have not been extensively reported before. In this study, we
Alexander N. Larcombe, Emily K. Chivers, Rachel R. Huxley, Arthur (Bill) W. Musk, Peter J. Franklin, Benjamin J. Mullins   +5 more
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Youth tobacco use cessation: 2008 update

, 2009
In this paper, an empirical review of 64 teen tobacco use cessation studies is provided. Examined include program contents, delivery modalities, number of contacts, and expected quit rates.
Steve Sussman, Ping Sun
core   +1 more source

E-Cigarette Use Among Undergraduate Liberal Arts and Health Sciences Students: A Study Protocol

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2015
Background: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are battery operated devices that deliver nicotine as an inhaled vapor. Use of e-cigarettes has gained in popularity since 2007, and their use is often promoted as a safer alternative to tobacco smoking. A
Vivian Dicks, Rebecca Stone
doaj   +1 more source

‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source