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You might be wondering: “Why should employers offer smoking cessation programs?”. While smoking is a dangerous habit that poses a number of health risks, the decision of whether or not to smoke is a deeply personal one. In this Pacific Prime article, we’ll tell you all you need to ...
(CDC, 2006a; Garvey, Bosse, Glynn, & Rosner, 1983). These differences in stage of development and smoking characteristics suggest that young adults might benefit from smoking cessation programs developed around their own needs and preferences (Andreasen, 1995). This belief motivated the develop- m...
Call your local chapter of the American Lung Association for further advice about smoking cessation programs. Other Treatments Treatment of the many diseases and conditions associated with smoking is dependent upon the extent and severity of the condition. Treatments are numerous, varied and are best ...
in 2008. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used data from the 2008 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to determine cigarette smoking numbers and smoking cessation programs. It found that smokers who did not graduate high school were the least likely to quit smoking.Dube...
Four S-KAS items that may be of particular clinical relevance for substance abuse treatment programs are shown in Table 5. The majority of participants, independent of treatment modality, agreed that smoking cessation should be offered in their treatment program and currently was not part of their...
“Buddy” systems and other targeted social support have been used to enhance outcomes in smoking cessation programs [15–22], although the long-term efficacy of interventions designed to increase partner support is equivocal [23]. Partner support, particularly support from a live-in partner or ...
(e.g., NICE 2006; CDC 2010), the training emphasised that the role of community-based healthcare practitioners is to: ask people whether they smoke, assess readiness to quit, raise the issue of smoking cessation, seek to motivate a cessation attempt, discuss pharmacological and behavioural ...
King said that only Alaska and North Dakota spend the dollars they got from the 1998 tobacco settlement between the states andtobacco companies, as well as revenue fromtobacco taxes, on smoking-cessation programs at CDC-recommended levels.
Smoking harms nearly every organ in the body and causes many diseases. Credit: CDC/Debora Cartagena The weight gain that can result from quitting smoking does not eliminate the reduction in cardiovascular risks associated with smoking cessation among patients with serious mental illness, at least not...