Skip to page content

Smoking Cessation

Journal Article

Friends Moderate the Effects of Pro-Smoking Media on College Students' Intentions to Smoke

Exposure to prosmoking media (e.g., smoking in movies, advertising in magazines) contributes to smoking in young people.

Mar 1, 2013
Journal Article

Workplace Strategies Are Needed to Protect Youth Across the Globe from Starting to Smoke

There is a strong association between adolescents' beginning to work and their beginning to smoke. Thus the workplace may be an appropriate venue for antismoking interventions targeting youth.

Sep 1, 2012
News Release

Efforts to Curb Tobacco Use in Arkansas Have Paid Dividends, but More Effort Needed

A decade of unprecedented efforts in Arkansas has cut cigarette use by nearly one-third and reduced incidence of tobacco-related illnesses such as heart attacks and stroke. To maintain the gains it has made, Arkansas should continue its financial commitment of devoting the tobacco settlement funds to public health programs.

Aug 16, 2012
Report

Evaluation of the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Program: Progress Through 2011 — Summary

This summary of the external evaluation of Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Commission activities looks at program implementation and changes in health outcomes associated with seven health-related programs funded by the Master Settlement Agreement over the past decade.

Aug 16, 2012
Report

Efforts to Curb Tobacco Use in Arkansas Have Paid Dividends, but More Effort Is Needed

A decade of unprecedented efforts in Arkansas has cut cigarette use by nearly one-third and reduced incidence of tobacco-related illnesses such as heart attacks and stroke. To maintain the gains it has made, Arkansas should continue its financial commitment of devoting the tobacco settlement funds to public health programs.

Aug 16, 2012
Journal Article

Toward a More Systematic Assessment of Smoking: Development of a Smoking Module for PROMIS®

The aim of the PROMIS® Smoking Initiative is to develop, evaluate, and standardize item banks to assess cigarette smoking behavior and biopsychosocial constructs associated with smoking for both daily and non-daily smokers.

Jul 31, 2012
Journal Article

Intergenerational Relationships Between the Smoking Patterns of a Population-Representative Sample of US Mothers and the Smoking Trajectories of Their Children

The authors assessed intergenerational transmission of smoking in mother-child dyads.

Apr 1, 2012
Journal Article

Resisting Smoking When a Best Friend Smokes: Do Intrapersonal and Contextual Factors Matter?

The strong link between having a best friend who smoked and increased adolescent smoking isn't affected by individual factors such as self-esteem, depressing and access to cigarettes.

Mar 1, 2012
Journal Article

Systematic Review of the Impact of Worksite Wellness Programs

Analyzes the impact of worksite wellness programs on health and financial outcomes, and the effect of incentives on participation.

Feb 1, 2012
Journal Article

Which Literacy Skills Are Associated with Smoking?

Increases in reading skills and numeracy skills substantially increase the odds that an individual will quit smoking.

Feb 1, 2012
Journal Article

Momentary Effects of Exposure to Prosmoking Media on College Students' Future Smoking Risk

This study used ecological momentary assessment to examine acute changes in college students' future smoking risk as a function of their exposure to prosmoking media (e.g., smoking in movies, paid advertising, point-of-sale displays).

Feb 1, 2012
Journal Article

Targeting Anti-Smoking Messages: Does Audience Race Matter?

This study examined whether an adolescent's self-identified race moderates the perceived effectiveness of anti-smoking messages.

Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article

Peer Influence and Selection Processes in Adolescent Smoking Behavior: A Comparative Study

Adolescent smoking studies find evidence of active peer influence and selection processes.

Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article

Multisite Cost Analysis of a School-Based Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program

The large cross-school variation in the cost of implementing Project CHOICE (a voluntary after-school prevention program for adolescents) highlights the importance of collecting cost information from multiple sites.

Sep 1, 2011
Journal Article

Within-day Temporal Patterns of Smoking, Withdrawal Symptoms, and Craving

Real-time data collected by palm-top computer confirms individual differences in situational smoking associations.

Sep 1, 2011
Journal Article

Economic Impact of Mexico City's Smoke-Free Law

There is no statistically significant evidence that the Mexico City smoke-free law had a negative impact on restaurants' income, employees' wages and levels of employment.

Feb 3, 2011
Journal Article

A Unified Framework for Smoking Assessment: The PROMIS Smoking Initiative

The PROMIS Smoking Initiative has the goal of developing, evaluating, and making widely available a set of items for assessing smoking behavior and the biopsychosocial constructs that can be used to predict smoking outcomes.

Jan 17, 2011
Journal Article

Lapse-induced Surges in Craving Influence Relapse in Adult Smokers: An Experimental Investigation

Previously abstinent smokers who lapse are at risk for increased cigarette cravings and full-blown relapse. The findings have implications for cognitive–behavioral treatments to prevent relapse and medications to help smokers manage cravings.

Jan 1, 2011
Journal Article

The Role of the Self in Smoking Initiation and Smoking Cessation: A Review and Blueprint for Research at the Intersection of Social-Cognition and Health

This paper discusses a contemporary social cognitive framework that can be used to understand the role of the self-concept in smoking.

Jan 1, 2011
Journal Article

Nicotine Replacement Prescribing Trends in a Large Psychiatric Hospital, Before and After Implementation of a Hospital-Wide Smoking Ban

Clinicians are more likely to treat symptoms of nicotine withdrawal when smoking is restricted. Hospitals should monitor prescriptions for nicotine replacement therapies to ensure high quality patient care.

Jan 1, 2011

Previous
1
2
3
4
5
Next

RAND Topic:
Smoking Cessation

Topic Synonyms:
Quitting Smoking