Other studies suggest a tendency to over-report (vs. under-report) desirable cessation-related activities [ 27].
Undesirable desire turned desirable.
A biomarker reflecting long-term past smoking exposure is desirable for accurate evaluation of smoking cessation and for assessment of smoking-related disease risk (CDC 2010).
So, for example, they may seek to end an unjust war to which their predecessors have committed the nation, but immediate cessation and withdrawal may not be desirable from several perspectives, including a moral point of view.
Running is associated with desirable lifestyle changes such as weight loss, smoking cessation and improvement in cardio respiratory fitness and mental health [ 1- 3].Thealthlth benefits associated with a short-term promotion program for novice runners, however, have not yet been examined.
While from the point of view of drug development FAS-II inhibition, which causes cessation of the essential mycolic acids, is desirable, inhibition of FAS-I is not since mammalian fatty acid synthases are similar to FAS-I.
From a clinical point of view, integration of a preoperative smoking and alcohol cessation intervention in the surgical pathway is highly desirable.
Recall bias in our case should tend to result in underestimates of smoking prevalence and overestimates of smoking cessation, given that people tend to give socially-desirable answers in such surveys [ 27, 28], but our findings still indicate high smoking prevalence rates and low smoking cessation rates for parents with young children in Taiwan.
Ideally, a preventative framework incorporating targeted physical activity to replace sedentary behavior and perhaps smoking cessation as part of a structured lifestyle intervention would be desirable.
Some suggested novel approaches to quitting and perceived that peer support or incentives might encourage smokers to access services – these approaches are also summarised in table 7. Most participants were unaware that the local smoking cessation service is already providing many of the services that they considered desirable.
Successful treatment is defined by cessation of excessive weight gain with normal linear growth (6), although in most cases, weight loss is desirable (17).
