BACKGROUND Tobacco use prevalence is elevated among people with mental illnesses, leading to elevated rates of premature smoking-related mortality. Opportunities to encourage smoking cessation among them are currently underused by mental health professionals. In this paper, we aim to explore mechanisms to invigorate professionals' intentions to help patients stop smoking. METHODS Data stem fr...

BACKGROUND Plain packaging requires tobacco products to be sold in packs with a standard shape, method of opening and colour, leaving the brand name in a standard font and location. We ran a randomised controlled trial to investigate the impact of plain packaging on smoking behaviour and attitudes. METHODS In a parallel group randomised trial design, 128 daily smokers smoked cigarettes from t...

Smoking is the principal preventable cause of ill health worldwide. It not only affects smokers themselves but is also extremely harmful to non-smokers who inhale environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). In non-smoking adults, ETS exposure causes lung and other cancers, ischaemic heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and other respiratory illnesses. Perhaps less well kn...

BACKGROUND Smoking remains a major public health problem; developing effective interventions to encourage more quit attempts, and to improve the success rate of self-quit attempts, is essential to reduce the numbers of people who smoke. Interventions for smoking cessation can be characterised in two extremes: the intensive face-to face therapy of the clinical approach, and large-scale, public h...

Smoking in Jordan is a serious problem as it affects almost all segments of society including children. This study aimed to evaluate the smoking behaviour of Jordanian secondary-school students (aged 16-18 years), their awareness of the dangers of smoking and their perceived susceptibility to lung cancer. Of the stratified random sample of students from Amman schools (n = 648), 43% were ever sm...

Introduction: The adolescent has a high chance of becoming smoker. Numerous determinants impact the smoking conduct adolescents, among which companionship peers holds significant sway. study aims to investigate level awareness pertaining e-cigarettes as means acquiring insights into patterns e-smoking conduct. Methods: used cross-sectional design in Kemoning Traditional Village, with 87 adolesc...