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NHS practitioners report lack of reimbursement from the NHS, lack of time and training and fears over patient response as barriers to delivering smoking cessation interventions. We did not find studies evaluating the cost-effectiveness of the intervention in the UK....
Qualitative data. These were collected 4–5 months af- ter the training. Participants were interviewed at their place of work, in a quiet and private environment. A semistruc- tured interview guide was used to explore the participants’ practice before and after the smoking cessation training. ...
In the UK, the NHS digital service provides statistics indicating that approximately 8.6% of mothers were known smokers at the time of delivery in the first half of 2023 [2]. Mendelian randomization (MR) studies between smoking during pregnancy and offspring birth weight suggest a causal ...
A therapist trained to NHS standards [34] prepared women for cessation and all women stopped abruptly on their quit day. The same member of staff delivered the intervention and made the research assessments. In Study 1 there were six weekly sessions of supervised exercise and in Study 2 there...
As noted above, the much higher post-smoking-cessation nicotine use in the e-cigarette arm did not seem to affect birth outcomes. As in previous studies30,57, the women who used e-cigarettes were also reducing the nicotine content of their e-cigarettes over time. However, if e-cigarette ...
Moreover, the risk may remain even after successful long-term smoking cessation [5]. Similarly, maternal prenatal smoking has implications for birth outcomes, including low birth weight and risk of preterm birth [6], as well as increased risk to the offspring's later cardio-metabolic health [...
A standard protocol for the taster sessions was developed in consultation with one of the co-investigators (SG) and the NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NSCTC) to conform to national guidelines [28]. Three to four advisors in each SSS, already trained to give smoking cessation ...
Dijkstra, A., Zuidema, R., Vos, D., Van Kalken, M., The effectiveness of the Allen Carr smoking cessation training in companies tested in a quasi-experimental design.BMC Public Health volume 14, Article number: 952 (2014) The 1 year quit rate was 55%. A long smoking history or many...
CE is expected to improve over time as the training is a one time cost and will continue to be spread over a greater number of quitters. A systematic review of the CE of smoking cessation studies was recently published (Ronckers et al 2005). In an attempt to standardize the studies for...