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Friday, May 21, 2010 Clinician Acquisition and Retention of Motivational Interviewing skills: A Two-and-a-Half-Year Explo » Clinician Acquisition and Retention of Motivational Interviewing skills: A Two-and-a-Half-Year Exploratory Study Forsber...
Friday, May 21, 2010 Relapse-Prevention Booklets Reduce Smoking Relapse among Arkansas Quitline Callers » In Arkansas, a quasi-experimental study found that the addition of the Forever Free relapse prevention materials to teleph...
Friday, May 21, 2010 Effectiveness of Relapse-Prevention Booklets Being Tested with New York State Smokers’ Quitline » A large-scale randomized, controlled effectiveness trial is under way in New York, using the Forever Free relapse-preventi...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Exploring Scenarios to Dramatically Reduce Smoking Prevalence » Exploring Scenarios to Dramatically Reduce Smoking Prevalence: A Simulation Model of the Three-Part Cessation Process Da...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 Open Access Issue Released: Tobacco Exposure During Pregnancy » Dear SRNT Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the April 2010 open access issue of Acta Obstetricia et Gynecolog...
Friday, April 30, 2010 MMWR: State Cigarette Minimum Price Laws » State Cigarette Minimum Price Laws --- United States, 2009. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MMWR. April 9,...
Friday, April 30, 2010 MMWR: State Cigarette Excise Taxes » State Cigarette Excise Taxes --- United States, 2009 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MMWR. April 9, 2010;59(...
Friday, April 30, 2010 MMWR: Adult Tobacco Survey: Surveillance Summaries » Adult Tobacco Survey --- 19 States, 2003—2007. Surveillance Summaries Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MMWR....
Friday, April 30, 2010 Identifying Framed Messages in the New York State Smokers' Quitline Materials » The identification of framed messages in the New York State Smokers' Quitline materials. Latimer AE, Green KE, Schmid K...
Friday, April 30, 2010 Implementing a Fax Referral Program for Quitline Smoking Cessation Services » Implementing a fax referral program for quitline smoking cessation services in urban health centers: a qualitative study....
Friday, April 30, 2010 Characteristics and Abstinence Outcomes Among Tobacco Quitline Enrollees Using Medication » Characteristics and abstinence outcomes among tobacco quitline enrollees using varenicline or nicotine replacement therapy...
Friday, April 30, 2010 The California Tobacco Control Program: A 20-Year Retrospective » The California Tobacco Control Program: a 20 year retrospective Special issue of Tobacco Control Available at: http://...
Friday, April 30, 2010 Medicaid Coverage for Tobacco Dependence Treatments in Massachusetts » Medicaid Coverage for Tobacco Dependence Treatments in Massachusetts and Associated Decreases in Smoking Prevalence Land...
Friday, April 30, 2010 Smokeless Tobacco: Changes in Behavior and Readiness to Quit » A pilot randomized study of smokeless tobacco use among smokers not interested in quitting: Changes in smoking behavior an...
Friday, April 30, 2010 Differences in Tobacco Use Between Canada and the United States » Jones A, Gulbis A, Baker EH. Differences in Tobacco Use between Canada and the United States. International Journal of P...
Monday, April 12, 2010 Materials Available to Support Research with Quitlines » NAQC’s Director of Research, Jessie Saul, presented a seminar at the Society for Behavioral Medicine with NAQC members Pau...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Reduction Versus Abrupt Cessation in Smokers Who Want to Quit » Lindson N, Aveyard P, Hughes JR. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010 Issue 3. This version first published on...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Predictors of Retention in Smoking Cessation Treatment Among Latino Smokers in the Northeast U.S. » Lee CS, Hayes RB, McQuaid EL, Borrelli B. Health Education Research.2010 Mar 17. [Epub ahead of print] This study examin...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Acculturation Differentially Predicts Smoking Cessation Among Latino Men and Women » Castro Y, Reitzel LR, Businelle MS, Kendzor DE, Mazas CA, Li Y, Cofta-Woerpel L, Wetter DW. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Pr...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Promoting Primary Care Smoking-Cessation Support with Quitlines » The QuitLink Randomized Controlled Trial Rothermich SF, Woolf SH, Johnson RE, Devers KJ, Flores SK, Villars P, Rabius V,...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Using a Quitline Plus Low-Cost Nicotine Replacement Therapy to Help Disadvantaged Smokers to Quit » Miller CL, Sedivy V. Tob Control. 2009 Apr;18(2):144-9. Epub 2009 Jan 8. This study tested an intervention designed to m...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Helpers Program: A Pilot Test of Brief Tobacco Intervention Training in Three Corporations » Muramoto ML, Wassum K, Connolly T, Matthews E, Floden L. Am J Prev Med. 2010 Mar;38(3 Suppl):S319-26. This study examine...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Creating a Perfect Storm to Increase Consumer Demand for Wisconsin's Tobacco Quitline » Sheffer MA, Redmond LA, Kobinsky KH, Keller PA, McAfee T, Fiore MC. Am J Prev Med. 2010 Mar;38(3 Suppl):S343-6. This art...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Use of a Smokers' Quitline by Asian Language Speakers: Results From 15 Years of Operation in CA » Zhu SH, Wong S, Stevens C, Nakashima D, Gamst A. American Journal of Public Health. AJPH First Look, published online ahea...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Increasing Consumer Demand for Cessation: Supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine » The aim of this supplement is to call attention to the utility of bringing a consumer-oriented perspective to population-l...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research » A New Society of Behavioral Medicion Journal Issues a Call for Papers Translational Behavioral Medicine (TBM) issues a ca...
Thursday, March 18, 2010 Will Asian-language Smokers Use a Tobacco Quitline? » UC San Diego Researchers Analyze 15 Years of Data on an Asian Quitline Telephone counseling programs for smoking cessati...
Monday, March 15, 2010 Changes in Tobacco Quitlines in the United States » Changes in tobacco quitlines in the United States Preventing Chronic Disease (March 2010) Findings from a North Americ...
Monday, March 15, 2010 Release of 1999–2006 United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report » The 1999–2006 United States Cancer Statistics (USCS): Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report, released today, marks the...
Thursday, March 11, 2010 A New Society of Behavioral Medicine Journal Issues a Call for Papers » Translational Behavioral Medicine (TBM) has issued a call for manuscripts that engage, inform, and catalyze dialogue betwe...
Thursday, March 4, 2010 Secondhand Smoke Raises Risk of Hardened Arteries » Frequent exposure to environmental tobacco smoke among 13-year-olds is associated with an increased risk of future blood v...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Increasing Tobacco Cessation in America: A Consumer Demand Perspective » National Tobacco Cessation Collaboration (NTCC) has developed a supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine...
Thursday, February 11, 2010 NCI Funds e-Cigarette Study » A study funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is scheduled to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Tob...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 State Preemption of Local Smoke-Free Laws in Government/Private Work Sites and Restaurants » State Preemption of Local Smoke-Free Laws in Government Work Sites, Private Work Sites, and Restaurants --- United States,...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 Menthol Cigarette Update » The Second Conference on Menthol Cigarettes (co-sponsored by NAQC) has concluded that menthol makes it easier for yout...
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