Policy initiatives to enhance smoking cessation and harm reduction

Impact of UK policy initiatives on use of medicines to aid smoking cessation.

CONTEXT Increasing the use of effective smoking cessation aids could in principle have a substantial public health impact. The UK government has undertaken several major policy initiatives to try to increase usage of smoking cessation medicines. It is important to evaluate what effect, if any, these have had to inform future policy in the UK and internationally. OBJECTIVE This study used sale...

POLICY POSITION Harm Reduction

Home visiting and perinatal smoking: a mixed-methods exploration of cessation and harm reduction strategies

BACKGROUND Home visiting programs represent an important primary prevention strategy for adverse prenatal health behaviors; the various ways in which home visiting programs impact prenatal smoking cessation and reduction behaviors remain understudied. METHODS Mixed methods approach using a retrospective cohort of propensity score matched home visiting clients and local-area comparison women w...

Efficacy of harm reduction programs among patients of a smoking cessation clinic in Tehran, Iran.

BACKGROUND Recently, harm reduction programs have been used to reduce mortality and morbidity among smokers. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of harm reduction programs on the smoking patterns of subjects who presented to a smoking cessation clinic in Tehran, Iran. METHODS This observational study was conducted between September 2008-September 2009 on 132 patients w...

Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation and reduction.

BACKGROUND Electronic cigarettes (ECs) are electronic devices that heat a liquid - usually comprising propylene glycol and glycerol, with or without nicotine and flavours, stored in disposable or refillable cartridges or a reservoir - into an aerosol for inhalation. Since ECs appeared on the market in 2006 there has been a steady growth in sales. Smokers report using ECs to reduce risks of smok...