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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Awareness and Use of Tobacco Quitlines: Evidence from the Health Information National Trends Survey » Kaufman A, Augustson E, Davisc K, Finney Rutten LJ. Journal of Health Communication, 15: S3, 264 — 278. URL: http://dx.do...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Prevalence of Heavy Smoking in California and the United States, 1965-2007 » Pierce JP, Messer K, White MM, Cowling DW, Thomas DP. JAMA. 2011;305(11):1106-1112. This study demonstrates that Califo...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Promoting Tobacco Cessation via the Workplace: Opportunities for Improvement » Hughes MC, Yette EM, Hannon PA, Harris JR, Tran NM, Reid TR. Tob Control. 2011 Apr 6. [Epub ahead of print] This study...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Quitline Networking Between the US and Canada: The Ties That Bind » Findings from the 2009 KIQNIC survey show that there are two distinct sub-networks within the North American quitline comm...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 KIQNIC Identifies Relationship Brokers in Quitline Network » One of the analyses in the social network analysis component of KIQNIC is to calculate the betweenness centrality of the o...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Socioeconomic variation in recall and perceived effectiveness of campaign advertisements » Niederdeppe J, Farrelly MC, Nonnemaker J, Davis KC, Wagner L. Soc Sci Med. 2011 Mar;72(5):773-80. Epub 2011 Jan 27. T...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Comparative responses to radio and television anti-smoking advertisements » Durkin S, Wakefield M. Health Promot Int. 2010 Mar;25(1):5-13. Epub 2009 Oct 24. This study compared reactions to bot...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 iPhone Apps for Smoking Cessation: A Content Analysis » Abroms L, Padmanabhan N, Phillips T. Am J Prev Med 2011;40(3):279-285. This study examined the content of 47 iPhone a...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Clinician-delivered Intervention to Facilitate Tobacco Quitline Use by Surgical Patients » Warner DO, Klesges RC, Dale LC, Offord KP, Schroeder DR, Shi Y, Vickers KS, Danielson DR. Anesthesiology. 2011 Feb 10. [Ep...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Does Improved Access and Greater Choice of Nicotine Replacement Therapy Affect Smoking Cessation ... » Does Improved Access and Greater Choice of Nicotine Replacement Therapy Affect Smoking Cessation Success? Findings from a...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 KIQNIC Update » KIQNIC (Knowledge Integration in Quitlines: Networks that Improve Cessation) is a five-year research grant from the U.S....
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 A randomized trial of internet and telephone treatment for smoking cessation » Amanda L. Graham, PhD; Nathan K. Cobb, MD; George D. Papandonatos, PhD; Jose L. Moreno, MA; Hakmook Kang, MS; David G. Tin...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 Smoking cessation quitlines in Europe: matching services to callers' characteristics » Willemsen MC, van der Meer RM, Schippers GM. BMC Public Health 2010, 10:770doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-770. This study e...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 Current major depression among smokers using a state quitline » Hebert KK, Cummins SE, Hernández S, Tedeschi GJ, Zhu SH. Am J Prev Med. 2011 Jan;40(1):47-53. This study assessed curre...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 Evaluation of a direct mailing campaign to increase physician awareness and utilization » Mathew M, Goldstein AO, Kramer KD, Ripley-Moffitt C, Mage C. Health Commun. 2010 Dec;15(8):840-5. This study evaluate...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 Awareness and use of tobacco quitlines: evidence from the Health Information National Trends Survey » Kaufman A, Augustson E, Davis K, Finney Rutten LJ. J Health Commun. 2010;15 Suppl 3:264-78. This study examined facto...
Thursday, December 9, 2010 Intervention Review: Stage-based interventions for smoking cessation » Cahill K, Lancaster T, Green N. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, Issue 11. Art. No.: CD004492. DOI: 10.1002/1...
Thursday, December 9, 2010 Effectiveness of adding relapse prevention materials to telephone counseling » Sheffer CE, Stitzer M, Brandon T, Bursac Z. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2010 Jul;39(1):71-7. This study examined the effecti...
Thursday, December 9, 2010 Evaluation of a hospital-based tobacco treatment service: Outcomes and lessons learned » Faseru B, Turner M, Casey G, Ruder C, Befort CA, Ellerbeck EF, Richter KP. J Hosp Med. 2010 Nov 24. [Epub ahead of print]...
Thursday, December 9, 2010 Does the Number of Free Nicotine Patches Given to Smokers Calling a Quitline Influence Quit Rates » Cummings KM, Fix BV, Celestino P, Hyland A, Mahoney M, Ossip DJ, Bauer U. BMC Public Health. 2010 Apr 7;10:181. This...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Impact on quit attempts of mailed general practitioner 'brief advice' letters ... » Impact on quit attempts of mailed general practitioner 'brief advice' letters plus nicotine replacement therapy vouchers....
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Educating smokers about their cigarettes and nicotine medications. » Bansal-Travers M, Cummings KM, Hyland A, Brown A, Celestino P. Health Educ Res. 2010 Aug;25(4):678-86. Epub 2010 Jan 11....
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 State-Specific Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Adults - US, 2009. » Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MMWR Weekly. Nov 5, 2010;59(43):1400-1406. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/mm...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Smoking Cessation Interventions Among Hispanics in the United States » Smoking Cessation Interventions Among Hispanics in the United States: A Systematic Review and Mini Meta-analysis. Webb...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Targeting African American Nonsmokers to Motivate Smokers to Quit: A Qualitative Inquiry. » Thomas JL, Scherber RM, Stewart DW, Lynam IM, Daley CM, Ahluwalia JS. Health Educ Behav. October 2010;37(5):680-693. Thi...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 State Medicaid Coverage for Tobacco-Dependence Treatments --- United States, 2009. » Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). October 22, 2010;59(41):1340-134...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Increased smoker recognition of a national quitline number following introduction ... » Increased smoker recognition of a national quitline number following introduction of improved pack warnings: ITC Project N...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Smoking Characteristics of Adults With Selected Lifetime Mental Illnesses » Smoking Characteristics of Adults With Selected Lifetime Mental Illnesses: Results From the 2007 National Health Interview...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 People with mental illness can tackle tobacco. » Ashton M, Miller CL, Bowden JA, Bertossa S. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2010 Nov;44(11):1021-8. This study tested a smoking r...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 UPDATE on Online Social Networks and Smoking Cessation: Strategic Research Opportunities Conference » The Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies held a groundbreaking conference in Washington D.C. Septem...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Vital Signs: Nonsmokers' Exposure to Secondhand Smoke --- United States, 1999—2008. » Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MMWR Weekly. 2010, Sept. 10;59(35):1141-1146. Available online at http://ww...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Vital Signs: Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years --- United States, 2009. » Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MMWR Weekly. 2010 Sept. 10;59(35):1135-1140. Available online at http://www.c...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Prevalence of Selected Risk Behaviors and Chronic Diseases and Conditions » Prevalence of Selected Risk Behaviors and Chronic Diseases and Conditions---Steps Communities, United States, 2006—2007....
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 The Latino Digital Divide: The Native Born versus The Foreign Born. » Livingston G. Pew Hispanic Center. July 2010. Full report available at http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/123.pdf &nb...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Smoke-free Legislation and Hospitalizations for Childhood Asthma. » Mackay D, Haw S, Ayres JG, Fischbacher C, Pell JP. N Engl J Med. 2010 Sept 16;363:12. This study examined whether the ba...
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