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| Lion ShahabSummaryAffiliation: University College London Country: UK Publications
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Differences in happiness between smokers, ex-smokers and never smokers: cross-sectional findings from a national household surveyLion Shahab
Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 2 16 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Drug Alcohol Depend 121:38-44. 2012..To date, no studies have examined happiness as a function of smoking status in ex-smokers of varying length of abstinence compared with current and never smokers...- Acceptability and effectiveness for withdrawal symptom relief of a novel oral nicotine delivery device: a randomised crossover trialLion Shahab
Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 216:187-96. 2011.... - A randomized, controlled trial of adding expired carbon monoxide feedback to brief stop smoking advice: evaluation of cognitive and behavioral effectsLion Shahab
Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 2 16 Torrington Place, London, UK
Health Psychol 30:49-57. 2011..To determine the effect of adding biomarker feedback (expired air carbon monoxide) to standard quit advice on cognitive antecedents of behavior change and smoking cessation and to identify potential effect moderators and mediators... - Public support in England for a total ban on the sale of tobacco productsLion Shahab
Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Tob Control 19:143-7. 2010..This study aimed to determine the level of support for a sales ban on tobacco in England to provide a benchmark against which any changes over time can be assessed... - Online support for smoking cessation: a systematic review of the literatureLion Shahab
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Addiction 104:1792-804. 2009..To examine the efficacy and acceptability of online, interactive interventions for smoking cessation and to identify treatment effect moderators and mediators... - The impact of changing nicotine replacement therapy licensing laws in the United Kingdom: findings from the International Tobacco Control Four Country SurveyLion Shahab
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Addiction 104:1420-7. 2009..To evaluate the impact of a new licence for some nicotine replacement therapy products (NRT) for cutting down to stop (CDTS) on changes in the pattern of NRT use... - Hypertension and its identification among current, past and never smokers in an English population sampleLion Shahab
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 17:63-70. 2010..This study aimed to determine the prevalence of hypertension awareness in hypertensive smokers and its association with receiving and acting on advice to stop smoking... - A comparison of exposure to carcinogens among roll-your-own and factory-made cigarette smokersLion Shahab
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 2 16 Torrington Place, London, UK
Addict Biol 14:315-20. 2009..More research is now needed to confirm these findings and gender-specific effects in a larger, representative sample. However, results do not support the common belief that RYO cigarettes are less harmful than manufactured cigarettes... - Showing smokers with vascular disease images of their arteries to motivate cessation: a pilot studyLion Shahab
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Br J Health Psychol 12:275-83. 2007..To examine the potential impact of visual personalized biomarker feedback on intention to stop smoking and to evaluate possible underlying causal pathways... - Prevalence, diagnosis and relation to tobacco dependence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a nationally representative population sampleL Shahab
Cancer Research Health Behaviour Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Thorax 61:1043-7. 2006..This study provides estimates of the national prevalence of COPD in England, the extent of under-detection of the disorder, and patterns of cigarette smoking, dependence, and motivation to stop smoking in those with the disease... - The reliability and validity of self-reported puffing behavior: evidence from a cross-national studyLion Shahab
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Nicotine Tob Res 10:867-74. 2008..Results suggest that smokers have a better perception of the time spent between puffs and of the number of puffs taken than of the intensity and depth of each puff or their actual smoke exposure... - The feasibility of measuring puffing behaviour in roll-your-own cigarette smokersL Shahab
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Tob Control 17:i17-23. 2008..Background/.. - Do ex-smokers report feeling happier following cessation? Evidence from a cross-sectional surveyLion Shahab
Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 2 16 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Nicotine Tob Res 11:553-7. 2009..Yet, little is known about the long-term affective impact of quitting. The present study examined ex-smokers' reports of change in happiness following cessation and factors associated with these reports... - 'The smoking toolkit study': a national study of smoking and smoking cessation in EnglandJennifer A Fidler
Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
BMC Public Health 11:479. 2011..The Smoking Toolkit Study (STS) was designed for this role. This paper describes the methodology of the STS and examines as far as possible the representativeness of the samples... - Strength of urges to smoke as a measure of severity of cigarette dependence: comparison with the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence and its componentsJennifer A Fidler
Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Addiction 106:631-8. 2011..This study compared ratings of Strength of Urges to Smoke (SUTS) with the Fagerström Test of Nicotine Dependence (FTND) and its components, including the Heaviness of Smoking Index (HSI)... - Behavior change techniques used by the English Stop Smoking Services and their associations with short-term quit outcomesRobert West
Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Nicotine Tob Res 12:742-7. 2010.... - Implementing a hospital-based smoking cessation programme: evidence for a learning effectTobias Raupach
Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Hospital Goettingen, Germany
Patient Educ Couns 70:199-204. 2008..This study assessed a newly set-up, hospital-based smoking cessation clinic with regard to continuous abstinence rates and the effectiveness of concomittant nicotine replacement therapy...