Smoking Cessation - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Smoking-related weight concerns among underserved, black maternal smokers.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To expand understanding of a smoking cessation barrier for women, weight concerns, in a medically underserved population. METHODS: Baseline weight concerns were examined among 235 low-income, black maternal smokers enrolled in a smoking ... Read more...

Telephone recruitment into a randomized controlled trial of quitline support.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Only 1%-7% of adult smokers use quitlines annually. Active telephone recruitment may increase utilization and enroll new groups of quitline users. PURPOSE: This study aimed to (1) determine the proportion of adult daily smokers actively ... Read more...

A characterisation of smokers and factors influencing motivation to stop smoking.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Smoking is currently a leading public health priority. Profiling smokers allows for adequate intervention strategies and it is important to assess smokers' motivation. AIMS: To calculate the rate of smokers in 4 files from 3 Health ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Smoking Cessation - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Smoking-related weight concerns among underserved, black maternal smokers. 30 Oct 2009
• Telephone recruitment into a randomized controlled trial of quitline support. 29 Sep 2009
• A characterisation of smokers and factors influencing motivation to stop smoking. 30 Aug 2009
• Smoking cessation: intentions, attempts and techniques. 30 Aug 2009
• Behavioral interventions in tobacco dependence. 30 Aug 2009
• Sensation seeking as a predictor of treatment compliance and smoking cessation treatment outcomes in heavy social drinkers. 30 Aug 2009
• Rapid reduction versus abrupt quitting for smokers who want to stop soon: a randomised controlled non-inferiority trial. 12 Aug 2009
• Do quitters have anything to lose? Changes in body mass index for daily, never, and former smokers over an 11-year period (1990--2001). 5 Aug 2009
• Quitting smoking is easy...Mark Twain said so. 30 Jul 2009
• Psychosocial factors associated with weight control expectancies in treatment-seeking African American smokers. 30 Jul 2009
• A cognitive-behavioral weight control program improves eating and smoking behaviors in weight-concerned female smokers. 30 Jul 2009
• Evaluation of school-based smoking-cessation interventions for self-described adolescent smokers. 25 Jul 2009
• Coping with temptations and adolescent smoking cessation: an initial investigation. 12 Jul 2009
• Using MIMIC models to examine the relationship between current smoking and early smoking experiences. Jul 2009
• [Information group--a solution to increase the efficacy of specialized intervention for smoking cessation] 29 Jun 2009
• Relations between anhedonia and smoking motivation. 29 Jun 2009
• Characteristics of nurses who used the Internet-based nurses QuitNet for smoking cessation. 29 Jun 2009
• The Self-regulation Model of Illness applied to smoking behavior in lung cancer. 29 Jun 2009
• Smokers' thoughts and worries: a study using ecological momentary assessment. 29 Jun 2009
• Longitudinal analysis of abstinence-specific social support and smoking cessation. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Smoking Cessation'

Definition: Discontinuation of the habit of smoking, the inhaling and exhaling of tobacco smoke.

Descriptor UI: D016540

Alternative terms: Smoking Cessation; Cessation, Smoking; Cessations, Smoking; Smoking Cessations;

Allowable Qualifiers: economics; ethnology; history; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: F01.145.940.700;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: TOBACCO USE CESSATION is also available