We explored metaphors women used to frame smoking and quitting, then developed cessation messages that drew on these metaphors and examined the perceived effectiveness of these.
Although some chronic diseases may take years to develop, cessation or reduction of drinking may stop the process and reduce morbidity or mortality consequences almost immediately.
This research team has spent the last ten years developing tobacco cessation curricula for medical colleges in India and Indonesia, adapting evidence-based cessation approaches to fit local cultures, and promoting community-based smoke free home campaigns as a means of reducing women and children's exposure to second-hand smoke.
The eligible patients were those receiving mechanical ventilation caused by developing sudden cessation of cardiopulmonary function.
The authors concluded that a better understanding of the biological correlates of POS could be useful in developing future cessation interventions.
It has been indicated that identifying who is more likely to continue smoking after cancer diagnosis is important for developing smoking cessation interventions [ 44].
It is important to examine the psychosocial factors as well as the smoking patterns with cotinine concentrations in the AI/AN population because such relationships are important when developing effective cessation interventions.
To explore what it is like to be a pregnant smoker in Sunderland and to inform the development of a Smoking Cessation Programme; to use qualitative techniques to develop a cessation programme tailored to pregnant smokers.
Notwithstanding these limitations, this study (one of the very few documenting PHC clinicians' tobacco screening and advising behaviors) provides useful information to develop tobacco cessation programs and to study tobacco cessation in South Africa further.
The experts ended up endorsing the procedure for donation after cardiac death, in which death occurs through a process of withdrawing life support and allowing the heart to develop "irreversible cessation".
