Primary care nurses struggle with lifestyle counseling in diabetes care: a qualitative analysis by Elwyn Glyn, van der Weijden Trudy, Braspenning Jozé, Jansink Renate, Grol Richard

“…Specific barriers in counseling patients with type 2 diabetes about diet, physical activity, and smoking cessation were addressed. The nurses were invited to reflect on barriers at the patient and practice levels, but mainly on their own roles as counselors. …”
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Depression, anxiety and motivation associated with tobacco use in a telephone intervention to quit smoking by Diana Berenice Bustamante-Aguilar, Sara Eugenia Cruz-Morales

“…DISCUSSION: these results coincide with other investigations, the symptoms of anxiety and depression as well as the motivation to quit smoking are important factors that must be considered when applying a treatment or smoking cessation intervention. It is recommended to emphasize strategies focused on emotional regulation related to depression symptoms, in addition to promoting actions to change tobacco consumption in people who arrive motivated to facilitate their adherence to the intervention.…”
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Examining the influence of global smoking prevalence on stroke mortality: insights from 27 countries across income strata by Isuri Abeysekera, Roshinie De Silva, Disuri Silva, Lakindu Piumika, Ruwan Jayathilaka, Lochana Rajamanthri

“…To mitigate the risk of stroke death attributable to smoking prevalence, necessary preventive steps should be adopted to encourage smoking cessation, and essential policies should be implemented to reduce the burden of SDR.…”
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Gut microbial metabolites reveal diet-dependent metabolic changes induced by nicotine administration by Ryuji Ohue-Kitano, Yukika Banno, Yuki Masujima, Ikuo Kimura

“…Our findings highlight the remarkable impact of the interplay between nutritional control and the gut environment on host metabolism during smoking and smoking cessation.…”
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Costs of the 'Hartslag Limburg' community heart health intervention by Ruland Erik, Steenbakkers Mieke, Groot Wim, Ronckers Emma T, Ament Andre

“…. €555,000 was spent on interventions to change people's exercise patterns, €250,000 on improving nutrition, €50,000 on smoking cessation, and €45,000 on lifestyle in general. …”
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Developing a taxonomy to describe offspring outcomes in studies involving pregnant mammals' exposure to non-tobacco nicotine: A systematic scoping review. by Lucy Phillips, Ross Thomson, Tom Coleman-Haynes, Sue Cooper, Felix Naughton, Lisa Mcdaid, Joanne Emery, Tim Coleman

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>Many countries recommend Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) for smoking cessation in pregnancy. Preclinical studies of nicotine exposure to pregnant mammals could indicate how nicotine may adversely affect the developing fetus. …”
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Satisfaction with medication in older adult patients with chronic respiratory diseases: a multicenter cross-sectional observational study by Jiankang Wu, Weiwei Meng, Huihui Zeng, Yiming Ma, Yan Chen

“…Clinicians can identify appropriate patients and communicate effectively with them throughout treatment and follow-up, vigorously promote smoking cessation and home oxygen therapy, increase medication satisfaction, especially among older adults, and in turn improve public health and the quality of life of older adults.…”
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The Efficacy of Bibliotherapy in Rehabilitation Context by Carmela Mento, Francesco Pira, Valentina Gueli Alletti, Maria Catena Silvestri

“…Bibliotherapy interventions may be helpful to fight against weight gain and potentially facilitate smoking cessation.   …”
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The Plasma Oxylipidome Links Smoking Status to Peripheral Artery Disease by Stephanie P. B. Caligiuri, Grant N. Pierce, Amir Ravandi, Harold M. Aukema

“…These data implicate the plasma oxylipidome in PAD and that smoking cessation is associated with a less inflammatory profile. …”
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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of pulmonary arterial hypertension in Indian patients: A hospital-based observational study by Mithilesh Kulkarni, Dinesh Joshi, Karthik Natrajan, Vishal Sharma, Sharad Jain, Riyaz Charaniya, Pooja Vyas, Krutika Patel, Gunjan Shah, Nisarg Desai

“…Conclusion: This study provides epidemiological data and clinical characteristics of PAH patients in India, emphasizing the need for early diagnosis, prompt management, and smoking cessation programs. The high prevalence of IPAH and female preponderance was also observed in this study. …”
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System-Level Quality Improvement Initiatives for Tobacco Use in a Safety-Net Health System During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Kara Chung, Henry Rafferty, Leslie W. Suen, Maya Vijayaraghavan

“…We examined trends in tobacco screening, provider counseling, and best practice for cessation care (ie, the proportion of patients receiving at least 1 smoking cessation service during a clinical encounter). …”
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KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, AND BEHAVIOR TOWARD SMOKING AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA by Ivan Kendrich, Bintang Yinke Magdalena Sinaga

“…Medical students should have good knowledge about tobacco, an attitude that supports smoking avoidance and supports smoking cessation, and be role models for society by not smoking. …”
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The problem of tobacco use among students of Lublin universities by Piotr Książek, Piotr Dreher, Sylwia Mojsym-Korybska, Kinga Grabska-Kusiak, Andrzej Wójcik, Mirosław Pucek

“…The main characteristics of tobacco dependence are: inability to stop smoking or significantly reducing it, the emergence of withdrawal syndrome caused by smoking cessation, persistent intake of tobacco, even when serious illness should prompt discontinuation. …”
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Osteoporosis in Patients with Chronic Kidney Diseases: A Systemic Review by Chia-Yu Hsu, Li-Ru Chen, Kuo-Hu Chen

“…Before initiating an antiresorptive or anabolic agent to treat osteoporosis in CKD patients, lifestyle modifications, such as exercise, calcium, and vitamin D supplementation, smoking cessation, and avoidance of excessive alcohol intake are important. …”
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Cytisine: State of the art in pharmacological activities and pharmacokinetics by Xuezhen Wang, Jiaming Yang, Peifeng Huang, Dong Wang, Zhibin Zhang, Zehua Zhou, Leiqin Liang, Rongmei Yao, Long Yang

“…In recent years, various biological activities of cytisine have been explored, showing certain effects in smoking cessation, reducing drinking behavior, anti-tumor, cardiovascular protection, blood sugar regulation, neuroprotection, osteoporosis prevention and treatment, etc. …”
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Nicotine replacement therapy products over the counter: real‐life use in the Australian community by Christine L. Paul, Raoul A. Walsh, Afaf Girgis

“…Implications: Wider use and effective provision of support and advice to NRT users in the community must be addressed if this product is to achieve its optimal potential in aiding smoking cessation.…”
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Female nursing students’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors toward smoking: A cross-sectional study in Saudi Arabia by Ahmad Hasan Abu Raddaha, Amirat Ali Al-Sabeely

“…Nursing students should receive training on smoking cessation techniques. …”
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Mobile phone-based interventions for mental health: A systematic meta-review of 14 meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials. by Simon B Goldberg, Sin U Lam, Otto Simonsson, John Torous, Shufang Sun

“…Eight effect sizes provided highly suggestive evidence (i.e., n > 1000, p < 10-6), including smartphone interventions outperforming inactive controls on measures of psychological symptoms and quality of life (ds = 0.32 to 0.47) and text message-based interventions outperforming non-specific controls and active controls for smoking cessation (ds = 0.31 and 0.19, respectively). The magnitude of effects and strength of evidence tended to diminish as comparison conditions became more rigorous (i.e., inactive to active, non-specific to specific). …”
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Heated Tobacco Products and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Narrative Review of Peer-Reviewed Publications by Wolfgang Popp, Lindsay Reese, Elena Scotti

“…Smoking contributes to an estimated 90% of COPD cases, as the harmful chemicals produced during tobacco combustion damage the lungs and airways. Although smoking cessation is the only intervention shown to improve COPD prognosis in smokers, many patients who try to quit continue to smoke. …”
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Use of supporting evidence by health and industry organisations in the consultation on e-cigarette regulations in New Zealand. by Lucy Hardie, Judith McCool, Becky Freeman

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>The industry continues to rely more heavily on evidence published outside of the peer-review process, which is, therefore, subjected to less scientific scrutiny. By using a smoking-cessation or harm-reduction narrative, the industry could be seen as a legitimate stakeholder in policy development.…”
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