BACKGROUND There is a need for population-based smoking cessation interventions targeting female smokers in Hong Kong. This study describes the development of a community-based network to promote smoking cessation among female smokers in Hong Kong. METHODS Local women's organizations collaborated to launch a project to provide gender-specific smoking cessation services. In the first phase of ...

OBJECTIVE Review and examine existing research, current strategies, and directions for future research on smoking cessation relapse and relapse prevention in pregnancy and postpartum. METHODS A MEDLINE/PubMed search in 2002 and 2003 for articles containing the key words "smoking," "pregnancy," "cessation," and "cessation relapse prevention" and references of retrieved papers yielded a review ...

This paper conducts a five-month follow-up survey of 608 Japanese adults who just started smoking cessation, and measures economic-psychological parameters such as the time preference rate and risk aversion coefficient using a conjoint analysis. We reach two main conclusions. First, cessation successes are more risk-averse than cessation failures, both at the starting and finishing points of th...

BACKGROUND Varenicline is now very useful medication for cessation; however, there is only little result of researches with varenicline for cessation of hospitalized patients. This research attempted to analyze the cessation effect of medication and compliance of hospitalized patients. METHODS This research included data for 52 patients who were prescribed varenicline among 280 patients who w...

Pharmacists have unique position to promote smoking cessation (SC). Furthermore, smoking cessation provision is an obligation of pharmacists recommended by many professional organizations. The aims of the study were to summarize pharmacists’ actual SC service provision, current knowledge about smoking cessation, attitudes toward role of pharmacist in SC, perceived role of pharmacist in SC servi...

BACKGROUND No data on annual smoking cessation probability (i.e., the probability of successfully quit in a given year) are available for Italy at a population level. Mathematical models typically used to estimate smoking cessation probabilities do not account for smoking relapse. In this paper, we developed a mathematical model to estimate annual quitting probabilities, taking into account smo...

BACKGROUND There has been a call for comprehensive cancer care that gives greater consideration to changing lifestyle risk factors such as smoking to improve prognosis and long-term health. Cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship offer challenges and opportunities ("teachable moments") to promote smoking cessation. METHODS This review provides a rationale for the importance of smoking c...

This meta-analysis examined outcomes of smoking cessation interventions evaluated in 19 randomized controlled trials with individuals in current addictions treatment or recovery. Smoking and substance use outcomes at posttreatment and long-term follow-up (> or = 6 months) were summarized with random effects models. Intervention effects for smoking cessation were significant at posttreatment and...