Risk factors for early TB treatment interruption among newly diagnosed patients in Malaysia by Suliman, Qudsiah, Lim, Poh Ying, Md. Said, Salmiah, Tan, Kit-Aun, Mohd. Zulkefli, Nor Afiah

“…Efforts to quit smoking cessation programs and to promote stigma reduction interventions are crucial to reduce the probability of early treatment interruption.…”

The correlation of two nicotine dependence measurement methods: Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) and saliva cotinine among a group of Muslim smoker in Malaysia by Zulkifley, Nuraisyah Hani, Ismail, Suriani, Abdul Manaf, Rosliza, Hamid, Zulkifley

“…Introduction: One of the known factors that hindered smoking cessation is nicotine dependence. Measurement of the nicotine dependence is important to better understand cigarette smoking addiction dependence and ways to overcome it. …”
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Women, smoking and vulnerability factors by Aser Morato Arnáiz, Christina Sota, Mónica Granados

“…Another factor favouring smoking cessation in women is that women are more likely than men to seek help, self-help, or treatment to quit smoking (Zhu, et al., 2005). …”
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Secondary prevention with a structured semi-interactive stroke prevention package in INDIA (SPRINT INDIA): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial by Jeyaraj Durai Pandian, Mahesh Pundlik Kate, Padmavathyamma Narayanapillai Sylaja, Dheeraj Khurana, Vijaya Pamidimukkala, Biman Kanti Ray, Vivek Keshavan Nambiar, Sanjith Aaron, Gaurav Kumar Mittal, Sundarachary Nagarjunakonda, Aparna Ramakrishna Pai, Sankar Prasad Gorthi, Somasundaram Kumaravelu, Yerasu Muralidhar Reddy, Sunil Narayan, Nomal Chandra Borah, Rupjyoti Das, Girish Baburao Kulkarni, Vikram Huded, Thomas Mathew, M Vasantha Padma Srivastava, Rohit Bhatia, Pawan Tarkeshwarnath Ojha, Jayanta Roy, Sherly Mary Abraham, Anand Girish Vaishnav, Arvind Sharma, Shaikh Afshan Jabeen, Abhishek Pathak, Sanjeev Kumar Bhoi, Sudhir Sharma, Sulena Sulena, Aralikatte Onkarappa Saroja, Neetu Ramrakhiani, Madhusudhan Byadarahalli Kempegowda, Sapna Erat Sreedharan, Gautam Das, Tina George, Ivy Sebastian, Rajeshwar Sahonta, Shyam Krishnakumar Jaiswal, Lalitha Pidaparthi, Rajeshwari Aghoram, Jemin Jeyachandra Webster, Rakesh Hasmukhlal Shah, Menka Jha, Karkal Ravishankar Niak, Deepti Arora, Shweta Jain Verma, Rahul Huilgol, Aneesh Dhasan, Vishnu Renjith, Himani Khatter, Prabhakaran Sarma, Sadasivan Laila Visakh, Sukhmandeep Kaur, Tagallamudi Nagamalleswara Rao, Venkatesh Dumpala, Gargi Podder, Arindam Biswas, Karthika Rani, Nishanthini Dhamodharan, Shilpa Sekhar, Satish Kumar Chinka, Varsha Aroor Prabhu, Farhaz Zaha, Sarvotham Ramanathan, Deepika Pabbu, Nupur Choudhury, Ramya Ramanathan, Saji K James, Neha Kuthalia, Sakshi Sharma, Mayuri Ramchandra Gaikwad, Purbita Sen, Sumita Basumatary, Rachana Dhruvesh Bhatt, Dipal Patel, Mareena Cyriac, Sasmita Swain, Narinder Kumar, Amaresh Kurubara, Devang Sharma, Meenakshi Sharma, Rupinder Dhaliwal, Jagarlapudi Murali Krishna Murthy, Prem Pais, Denis Xavier, Parthasarathy Satishchandra, Subash Kaul, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Suresh Chandran, Rajneesh Kumar Calton, Jacob George

“…Among the secondary outcome measures, alcohol cessation and smoking cessation were higher in the intervention group than in the control group (alcohol cessation 231 [85%] of 272 in the intervention group vs 255 [78%] of 326 in the control group; p=0·036; smoking cessation 202 [83%] vs 206 [75%]; p=0·035). …”
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Cohort profile: China undergraduate cohort for environmental health study by Peng Lu, Jiaming Miao, Liu Yang, Siqi Dou, Lei Yang, Chongjian Wang, Hao Xiang, Gongbo Chen, Tingting Ye, Lailai Yan, Shanshan Li, Yuming Guo

“…The dataset comprises individual demographic data (e.g. age, sex, height, weight, birth date, race, home address, annual family income, contact information), health-related behavior data (smoking status, smoking cessation, passive smoking exposure, drinking habit, physical activity, dietary status), lifestyle data (physical exercise, dietary habit, length of time spent outdoors), disease history (respiratory disease history, cardiovascular disease history, urinary system disease history, etc.), mental health status data (sleep quality, self-reported stress, anxiety and depression symptoms), lung function and blood samples data. …”
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Individual factors associated with COPD in Greece: Does age matter? by Stephanie Teloniatis, Vaso Evangelopoulou, Panagiotis Behrakis, Anna Tzortzi

“…Conclusions Individual factors associated with COPD differed by age groups showing a need for a tailored approach targeting smoking cessation in younger ages and management of depression in those over 65 years old. …”
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Mobile Health Interventions to Improve Health Behaviors and Healthcare Services among Vietnamese Individuals: A Systematic Review by Anna Nguyen, Valerie Eschiti, Thanh C. Bui, Zsolt Nagykaldi, Kathleen Dwyer

“…Short message service was most frequently used to provide health education, support smoking cessation, monitor chronic diseases, provide follow-up, and manage vaccination. …”
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Comparison of Partial Laryngectomy Versus Radiotherapy for the Treatment of Early Glottic Carcinoma: Complications and Oncological Results- a Nonrandomized Clinical Trial by Mehrdad Jafari, Mehdi Aghili, Elham Kamali Hakim, Leyla Sahebi, Babak Saedi

“…With regard to oncological outcome after one and eight-year after treatment, no differences were observed in the two treatment groups; there was a significant relationship between smoking cessation and recurrence of disease in the partial laryngectomy treatment group (P=0.012). …”
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Text mining tweets on e-cigarette risks and benefits using machine learning following a vaping related lung injury outbreak in the USA by Lamiece Hassan, Mohab Elkaref, Geeth de Mel, Ilze Bogdanovica, Goran Nenadic

“…Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) (also known as ‘e-cigarettes’) can support smoking cessation, although the long-term health impacts are not yet known. …”
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The emergence of socioeconomic inequalities in smoking during adolescence and early adulthood by Joana Alves, Julian Perelman, Elisabete Ramos, Anton E Kunst

“…The incidence of smoking cessation was higher among the higher educated. …”
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The Effects of a Health Care Chatbot’s Complexity and Persona on User Trust, Perceived Usability, and Effectiveness: Mixed Methods Study by Joshua Biro, Courtney Linder, David Neyens

“…Although chatbots have been studied in the health care domain for their efficacy for smoking cessation, diet recommendation, and other assistive applications, few studies have examined how specific design characteristics influence the effectiveness of chatbots in providing health information. …”
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Prevalence and natural history of and risk factors for subaneurysmal aorta among 65-year-old men by Knut Thorbjørnsen, Sverker Svensjö, Khatereh Djavani Gidlund, Nils-Peter Gilgen, Anders Wanhainen

“…Further research on the cost-effectiveness and potential benefits of surveillance as well as smoking cessation and secondary cardiovascular prevention in this subgroup is warranted.…”
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Culturally adapting internet- and mobile-based health promotion interventions might not be worth the effort: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Sumeyye Balci, Kerstin Spanhel, Lasse Bosse Sander, Harald Baumeister

“…Out of 9438 records, 13 randomized controlled trials (RCT) investigating culturally adapted health promotion IMI addressing healthy eating, physical activity, alcohol consumption, sexual health behavior, and smoking cessation included. From the included studies 10,747 participants were eligible. …”
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Assessing Neutralized Nicotine Distribution Using Mice Vaccinated with the Mucosal Conjugate Nicotine Vaccine by Nya L. Fraleigh, Jordan D. Lewicky, Alexandrine L. Martel, Francisco Diaz-Mitoma, Hoang-Thanh Le

“…Nicotine vaccines have been investigated as an alternative to currently available smoking cessation strategies as a means to increase rates of success and long-term abstinence. …”
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Lifestyle behaviours and associated factors among people with type 2 diabetes attending a diabetes clinic in Ningbo, China: A cross-sectional study. by Naomi Carter, Jialin Li, Miao Xu, Li Li, Shengnan Xu, Xuelan Fan, Shuyan Zhu, Prit Chahal, Kaushik Chattopadhyay

“…Specific interventions targeting smoking cessation and reduction in alcohol drinking may be of benefit to men living with T2DM attending a diabetes clinic in Ningbo.…”
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Association of thyroid function and obesity with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: An observational cross-sectional study by Deepak Singh, Anjuman Chaudhary, Atul Kumar Singh, Abhishek Singh

“…Systemic inflammation may be mainly driven by risk factor – cigarette smoking and it persists after smoking cessation. COPD is associated with severe extrapulmonary (systemic) manifestations and comorbidities such as cardiac, osteoporosis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, Thyroid Dysfunctions, and obesity. …”
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The effect of tobacco control policies on smoking prevalence using the SimSmoke Ireland model: influence of interventions 2010-2016 on reaching End Game 2025 by Shasha Li, David Levy, Luke Clancy

“…The outperformance could be explained by price increase, stronger health warnings, improved youth 'access' enforcement and improved smoking cessation treatment between 2011 and 2016. …”
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Short Bouts of Physical Activity Are Associated with Reduced Smoking Withdrawal Symptoms, But Perceptions of Intensity May Be the Key by Marianna Masiero, Helen Keyworth, Gabriella Pravettoni, Mark Cropley, Alexis Bailey

“…These findings provided a novel insight into the psychological mechanisms that affect the efficacy of the exercise in smoking cessation and suggest that exercise should be tailored according to individual perception of intensity.…”
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Maternal Cigarette Smoking and Congenital Upper and Lower Limb Differences: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jevan Cevik, Omar Salehi, James Gaston, Warren M. Rozen

“…These findings highlight the potential detrimental effects of smoking on foetal limb development and underscore the importance of smoking cessation interventions for pregnant women to mitigate these risks.…”
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Risk profiles for smoke behavior in COVID-19: a classification and regression tree analysis approach by Jiangyun Chen, Jiao Yang, Siyuan Liu, Haozheng Zhou, Xuanhao Yin, Menglin Luo, Yibo Wu, Jinghui Chang

“…For high-risk population who smoke, the “mask protection” effect during the COVID-19 pandemic should be fully utilized to encourage smoking cessation.…”
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