BACKGROUND We investigated the perceptions and practices regarding tobacco intervention among nurses, as improvement of such practices is important for the management of patients who smoke. METHODS Self-administered questionnaires were delivered by hospital administrative sections for nursing staff to 2676 nurses who were working in 3 cancer hospitals and 3 general hospitals. Of these, 2215 (...

In May 2010, following reports of neuropsychiatric adverse events, Health Canada compelled the makers of the newest smoking cessation prescription medication, varenicline, to carry a boxed warning label.1 Warnings regarding increased risk of aggression and suicidal thoughts and behaviour have been in place for bupropion, another smoking cessation prescription medication, since 2004.2 These warn...

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The main objective of this study was to determine if level of education, gender, and tobacco history affected attitudes of dental students toward tobacco cessation counseling. A secondary objective was to examine the psychometric properties of the survey instrument. First- and fourth-year dental students at one school of dental medicine completed a survey examining attitudes toward tobacco cess...

Objective: Healthcare professionals and addiction programs play important roles in tobacco use prevention and cessation activities. In this study, we analyzed the prevalence of tobacco use and the impact of smoking cessation advice through programs/professionals among a nationally representative sample of youth in India. Methods: The data were obtained from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS...

Objectives This is a protocol for Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the effects of behavioural and pharmacological interventions smokeless tobacco use cessation.

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent of commercial tobacco imagery in the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) press. METHODS Content analysis of all advertising containing tobacco related text or imagery in 20 LGB community periodicals, published between January 1990 and December 2000. RESULTS 3428 ads were found: 689 tobacco product ads, 1607 ads for cessation products or services, 99 ads with ...

BACKGROUND Prevalence of tobacco use is higher in the rural than urban areas of India. Unlike tobacco cessation clinics located in urban areas, community-based smoking cessation intervention has the potential to reach a wider section of the community to assist in smoking cessation in the rural setting. The present study aimed to assess the effectiveness of a cessation intervention in rural Kera...

BACKGROUND Tobacco control needs in India are large and complex. Evaluation of outcomes to date has been limited. AIM To review the extent of tobacco control measures, and the outcomes of associated trialled interventions, in India. METHODS Information was identified via database searches, journal hand-searches, reference and citation searching, and contact with experts. Studies of any popu...

BACKGROUND There is an enormous health burden caused by the co-prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) and tobacco use in India. This intervention study was undertaken in district Vadodara, Gujarat, India to promote tobacco cessation by integrating 'brief advice' for tobacco cessation in TB patients who were tobacco users and registered for treatment under TB control programme, based on the tested stra...