Research Topics
| P AveyardSummaryAffiliation: University of Birmingham Country: UK Publications
| Collaborators
|
Detail Information
Publications
A randomised trial of nicotine assisted reduction to stop in pharmacies - the RedPharm studyTaina Taskila
UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, Primary Care Clinical Sciences, School of Health and Population Sciences, Primary Care Clinical Sciences Building, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
BMC Public Health 12:182. 2012..This pilot study aims therefore to examine the feasibility of implementing smoking reduction programme in pharmacies, and also to see if behavioural support and a longer treatment affect the success rate for cessation...
Brief opportunistic smoking cessation interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare advice to quit and offer of assistancePaul Aveyard
UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Addiction 107:1066-73. 2012..This study aimed to assess the effects of opportunistic brief physician advice to stop smoking and offer of assistance on incidence of attempts to stop and quit success in smokers not selected by motivation to quit...- Promoting smoking cessation in Pakistani and Bangladeshi men in the UK: pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of trained community outreach workersRachna A Begh
UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Trials 12:197. 2011.... - Rapid reduction versus abrupt quitting for smokers who want to stop soon: a randomised controlled non-inferiority trialNicola Lindson
Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Trials 10:69. 2009..Follow up will take place at 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 6 months post-quit day. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN22526020... - Trial Protocol: randomised controlled trial of the effects of very low calorie diet, modest dietary restriction, and sequential behavioural programme on hunger, urges to smoke, abstinence and weight gain in overweight smokers stopping smokingDeborah Lycett
UKCTCS, Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
Trials 11:94. 2010..Weight, waist and hip circumference and percentage body fat are measured at each visit. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Current controlled trials ISRCTN83865809... - Promoting smoking cessation in Bangladeshi and Pakistani male adults: design of a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of trained community smoking cessation workersRachna A Begh
UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Trials 10:71. 2009..In addition, we will assess the impact of the intervention on adherence to smoking cessation treatments and patient satisfaction... - Trial protocol and preliminary results for a cluster randomised trial of behavioural support versus brief advice for smoking cessation in adolescentsWolfgang A Markham
School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
BMC Res Notes 3:336. 2010..abstract:.. - Experiences of outreach workers in promoting smoking cessation to Bangladeshi and Pakistani men: longitudinal qualitative evaluationRachna A Begh
Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK
BMC Public Health 11:452. 2011..We report on a qualitative evaluation of a community-based, outreach worker delivered, intervention that aimed to increase uptake of NHS smoking cessation services and tailor services to meet the needs of Bangladeshi and Pakistani men... - Trial Protocol: Using genotype to tailor prescribing of nicotine replacement therapy: a randomised controlled trial assessing impact of communication upon adherenceTheresa M Marteau
Psychology Department at Guy s, Health Psychology Section, King s College London, 5th floor Bermondsey Wing, Guy s Campus, London SE1 9RT, UK
BMC Public Health 10:680. 2010..II Amongst smokers who fail to quit at six months, motivation to make another quit attempt is lower when informed that their oral dose of NRT was tailored to genotype rather than phenotype... - Physical activity as an aid to smoking cessation during pregnancy: two feasibility studiesMichael Ussher
Division of Community Health Sciences, St, George s University of London, London, SW17 0RE, UK
BMC Public Health 8:328. 2008..Two pilot studies assessed i) the feasibility of recruiting pregnant women to a trial of physical activity for smoking cessation, ii) adherence to physical activity and iii) women' perceptions of the intervention... - Canadian and English students' beliefs about waterpipe smoking: a qualitative studyJeremy Roskin
UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
BMC Public Health 9:10. 2009..Waterpipe smoking is becoming popular among western students. The aim was to understand the appeal to students of this form of smoking when other forms of smoking are becoming less common... - Waterpipe smoking in students: prevalence, risk factors, symptoms of addiction, and smoke intake. Evidence from one British universityDaniel Jackson
Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
BMC Public Health 8:174. 2008..Anecdotal reports suggest waterpipe smoking is becoming common in students in western countries. The aim was to examine prevalence, risk factors, symptoms of addiction, and smoke intake... - Mediated, moderated and direct effects of country of residence, age, and gender on the cognitive and social determinants of adolescent smoking in Spain and the UK: a cross-sectional studyWolfgang A Markham
School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
BMC Public Health 9:173. 2009..The ASE model is, thus, closely related to the Theory of Planned Behaviour. This study assessed the utility of the ASE model using cross-sectional data from Spanish and UK adolescents... - A pilot randomised controlled trial of the feasibility of using body scan and isometric exercises for reducing urge to smoke in a smoking cessation clinicLemees Al-Chalabi
Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
BMC Public Health 8:349. 2008..It is unclear whether they would be used or effective in typical smokers attempting to quit... 
The influence of in-pregnancy smoking cessation programmes on partner quitting and women's social support mobilization: a randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN89131885]Paul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
BMC Public Health 5:80. 2005..Smoking cessation interventions in pregnancy could influence a woman's social behaviour and her partner's smoking behaviour, but this has not been examined in any published randomized trials...- Managing smoking cessationPaul Aveyard
Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT
BMJ 335:37-41. 2007 
A randomized controlled trial of smoking cessation for pregnant women to test the effect of a transtheoretical model-based intervention on movement in stage and interaction with baseline stagePaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, UK
Br J Health Psychol 11:263-78. 2006..To examine whether, as predicted by the transtheoretical model (TTM), stage-matched interventions will be more effective than stage-mismatched interventions...- Weekly versus basic smoking cessation support in primary care: a randomised controlled trialPaul Aveyard
Cancer Research UK General Practice Research Group, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Thorax 62:898-903. 2007.... - Assessing the outcomes of prolonged cessation-induction and aid-to-cessation trials: floating prolonged abstinencePaul Aveyard
School of Population and Health Sciences Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Nicotine Tob Res 11:475-80. 2009..Floating prolonged abstinence could provide such an assessment and is suitable for either prolonged cessation-induction trial or combined cessation-induction and aid-to-cessation trials... - The effect of Transtheoretical Model based interventions on smoking cessationPaul Aveyard
Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Soc Sci Med 68:397-403. 2009..These effects may instead have occurred because TTM-based interventions were more intensive than control interventions... - Cluster randomised controlled trial of expert system based on the transtheoretical ("stages of change") model for smoking prevention and cessation in schoolsP Aveyard
Department of Public Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT
BMJ 319:948-53. 1999..To examine whether a year long programme based on the transtheoretical model of behaviour change, incorporating three sessions using an expert system computer program and three class lessons, could reduce the prevalence of teenage smoking... - Is advice to stop smoking from a midwife stressful for pregnant women who smoke? Data from a randomized controlled trialPaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Prev Med 40:575-82. 2005..There are no randomized trials examining whether intensive advice to pregnant smokers is more stressful than standard care... - Nortriptyline plus nicotine replacement versus placebo plus nicotine replacement for smoking cessation: pragmatic randomised controlled trialPaul Aveyard
Division of Primary Care and Public Health, University of Birmingham, UK
BMJ 336:1223-7. 2008..To test the efficacy of nortriptyline plus nicotine replacement therapy compared with placebo plus nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation... - Does the multidimensional nature of Super Profiles help district health authorities understand the way social capital affects health?P Aveyard
Department of Public Health, Birmingham Health Authority
J Public Health Med 22:317-23. 2000..As Super Profiles describe the social character of an area and they are easy for health authorities to use, they could provide a simple method for local assessment of how social organization affects health... - The cost effectiveness of including pencils and erasers with self-completion epidemiological questionnairesP Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Public Health 115:80-1. 2001..Including pencils with mailed epidemiological questionnaires probably has no benefit and any plausible benefit does not offset the costs of sending pencils and erasers... - The change-in-stage and updated smoking status results from a cluster-randomized trial of smoking prevention and cessation using the transtheoretical model among British adolescentsP Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Prev Med 33:313-24. 2001..The transtheoretical model (TTM) and computer technology are promising technologies for changing health behavior, but there is little evidence of their effectiveness among adolescents... - Does smoking status influence the prognosis of bladder cancer? A systematic reviewP Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, UK
BJU Int 90:228-39. 2002..To summarize, in a systematic review, the evidence for the effect of stopping smoking on recurrence, cancer-specific and all cause-mortality among smokers with newly diagnosed bladder cancer... - The relationship between mean birth weight and poverty using the Townsend deprivation score and the Super Profile classification systemP Aveyard
Department of Public Health, Birmingham Health Authority, UK
Public Health 116:308-14. 2002..We conclude that Super Profiles are probably unsuitable as measures of deprivation of small areas... - Can the stages of change for smoking acquisition be measured reliably in adolescents?Paul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Prev Med 35:407-14. 2002..was to examine the reliability of the algorithm... - The risk of smoking in relation to engagement with a school-based smoking interventionPaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Soc Sci Med 56:869-82. 2003..The best explanation is that disengagement from school, an established risk factor for smoking, generalises to disengagement from didactic school-based health promotion programmes... - A controlled trial of an expert system and self-help manual intervention based on the stages of change versus standard self-help materials in smoking cessationPaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Addiction 98:345-54. 2003..To examine the population impact and effectiveness of the Pro-Change smoking cessation course based on the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) compared to standard self-help smoking cessation literature... - The influence of school culture on smoking among pupilsPaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Soc Sci Med 58:1767-80. 2004..27), respectively. Adjustment for pupil-level smoking risk factors had little effect. School culture is an independent risk factor for adolescent smoking. Schools providing effective support and control might protect pupils from smoking... - A methodological and substantive review of the evidence that schools cause pupils to smokePaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Soc Sci Med 58:2253-65. 2004..However, under-control and over-control of confounding and lack of theoretical underpinning precludes definitive conclusions on how particular school characteristics influence pupils' smoking... - Is inter-school variation in smoking uptake and cessation due to differences in pupil composition? A cohort studyPaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Health Place 11:55-65. 2005.... - Do the Transtheoretical Model processes of change, decisional balance and temptation predict stage movement? Evidence from smoking cessation in adolescentsBoliang Guo
School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Addiction 104:828-38. 2009..To examine the effects of processes of change (POC) on forward stage movement directly, indirectly through decisional balance and temptation, and total effects as a test of the key hypothesis of the Transtheoretical Model (TTM)... - Use of nicotine replacement therapy for smoking reduction and during enforced temporary abstinence: a national survey of English smokersE Beard
UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, University College London, London, UK
Addiction 106:197-204. 2011.... - Does stage-based smoking cessation advice in pregnancy result in long-term quitters? 18-month postpartum follow-up of a randomized controlled trialTerry Lawrence
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham UK
Addiction 100:107-16. 2005..It has been claimed that TTM-based interventions will continue to create quitters after the end of the intervention period... - A cluster randomised controlled trial of smoking cessation in pregnant women comparing interventions based on the transtheoretical (stages of change) model to standard careT Lawrence
The Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Tob Control 12:168-77. 2003..To evaluate the effectiveness in helping pregnant women stop smoking of two interventions (Pro-Change for a healthy pregnancy) based on the transtheoretical model of behaviour change (TTM) compared to current standard care... - 'Cut down to quit' with nicotine replacement therapies in smoking cessation: a systematic review of effectiveness and economic analysisD Wang
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, UK
Health Technol Assess 12:iii-iv, ix-xi, 1-135. 2008..To examine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for 'cut down to quit' (CDTQ) smoking... - Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of computer and other electronic aids for smoking cessation: a systematic review and network meta-analysisY F Chen
School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Health Technol Assess 16:1-205, iii-v. 2012..Approaches to behaviour change can be supplemented with electronic aids, and this may significantly increase quit rates and prevent a proportion of cases that relapse... - The importance of social sources of cigarettes to school studentsE Croghan
Behavioural Epidemiology Research Group, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, UK
Tob Control 12:67-73. 2003..To discover the importance of social sources of tobacco to young people as opposed to commercial sources; to describe the peer market for cigarettes in schools and the consequences for young people of their involvement in it... - An updated meta-analysis of nicotine preloading for smoking cessation: investigating mediators of the effectNicola Lindson
UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 214:579-92. 2011..Two reviews have estimated the effect of preloading on abstinence, but need updating. Neither investigated possible mediators or moderators of the effect, which could have implications for individual treatment plans... - Cost-effectiveness of pharmacological interventions for smoking cessation: a literature review and a decision analytic analysisFujian Song
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Med Decis Making 22:S26-37. 2002..The cost-effectiveness of adding NRT and bupropion SR to advice or counseling for smoking cessation is better than many other accepted health care interventions... - A new theory of health promoting schools based on human functioning, school organisation and pedagogic practiceWolfgang A Markham
School of Education, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK
Soc Sci Med 56:1209-20. 2003..It is concluded that the new theory may have a number of advantages over existing theories at both the policy and intervention levels... - School nurses: policies, working practices, roles and value perceptionsEmma Croghan
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, UK
J Adv Nurs 47:377-85. 2004..There is very little literature on this topic and, in particular, little that is written from a practitioner perspective... - A randomised controlled trial to compare a range of commercial or primary care led weight reduction programmes with a minimal intervention control for weight loss in obesity: the Lighten Up trialKate Jolly
School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
BMC Public Health 10:439. 2010.... - Predicting the life-time benefit of school-based smoking prevention programmesMark Jit
Health Economics Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Addiction 105:1109-16. 2010..We explored whether delaying the age at which someone initiates smoking may have life-time benefits by increasing the likelihood of quitting in later life... - Using latent class and latent transition analysis to examine the transtheoretical model staging algorithm and sequential stage transition in adolescent smokingBoliang Guo
School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Subst Use Misuse 44:2028-42. 2009..There was reasonable support for the staging algorithm but no evidence of sequential stage transition. The research was funded by Cancer Research UK... - Effectiveness and safety of nicotine replacement therapy assisted reduction to stop smoking: systematic review and meta-analysisDavid Moore
School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
BMJ 338:b1024. 2009..To determine the effectiveness and safety of nicotine replacement therapy assisted reduction to stop smoking... - Testing the convergent and discriminant validity of the Decisional Balance Scale of the Transtheoretical Model using the Multi-Trait Multi-Method approachBoliang Guo
Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Psychol Addict Behav 22:288-94. 2008..Taken with other data, there is strong evidence for construct validity of Decisional Balance for smoking in adolescence, but evidence of predictive validity is required... - A proof of concept randomised placebo controlled factorial trial to examine the efficacy of St John's wort for smoking cessation and chromium to prevent weight gain on smoking cessationAmanda Parsons
Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Drug Alcohol Depend 102:116-22. 2009..St John's wort is an effective antidepressant that can reduce tobacco withdrawal symptoms, but it is not known whether it assists cessation. Chromium assists weight loss and might limit post cessation weight gain... - New York City offensive against tobaccoMike Murphy
Childhood Cancer Research Group, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6HJ, UK
Lancet 365:1831-2. 2005 - The factor structure and factorial invariance for the decisional balance scale for adolescent smokingBoliang Guo
Division of Primary Care and Public Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Int J Behav Med 16:158-63. 2009..The transtheoretical model is a framework to explain smoking uptake and cessation in adolescence. Decisional balance is proposed as a driver of stage movement... - What determines future smoking intentions of 12- to 13-year-old UK African-Caribbean, Indian, Pakistani and white young people?Wolfgang A Markham
School of Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Health Educ Res 19:15-28. 2004.... - The risk of preterm delivery in women from different ethnic groupsPaul Aveyard
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, UK
BJOG 109:894-9. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Factors associated with deprivation and marital status explain about half of the excess of preterm births in Afro-Caribbeans, but not Africans. The risk of preterm delivery might not be related to deprivation in Asians... - A randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a letter from a consultant surgeon in causing smokers to stop smoking pre-operativelyK Andrews
Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Public Health 120:356-8. 2006 - Influence of smoking cessation after diagnosis of early stage lung cancer on prognosis: systematic review of observational studies with meta-analysisA Parsons
UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
BMJ 340:b5569. 2010..To systematically review the evidence that smoking cessation after diagnosis of a primary lung tumour affects prognosis... - Reduction versus abrupt cessation in smokers who want to quitNicola Lindson
Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK, B15 2TT
Cochrane Database Syst Rev 3:CD008033. 2010..Further research needs to investigate which method of reduction before quitting is the most effective, and which categories of smokers benefit the most from each method, to inform future policy and intervention development... - What happens to women's self-reported cigarette consumption and urinary cotinine levels in pregnancy?Terry Lawrence
Behavioural Epidemiology Research Group, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Addiction 98:1315-20. 2003..To describe the pattern of self-reported cigarette consumption and nicotine consumption, measured by urinary cotinine concentration, in a cohort of pregnant women who did not stop smoking... - Does smoking influence survival in cancer patients through effects on respiratory and vascular disease?Taane G Clark
Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Old Road, Headington, Oxford, UK
Eur J Cancer Prev 15:87-90. 2006..Mortality among cancer patients might fall if more assistance in stopping smoking was provided for patients who have smoking-related cancers... - The place of varenicline in smoking cessation treatmentPaul Aveyard
Thorax 63:666-8. 2008 - Is attributing smoking to genetic causes associated with a reduced probability of quit attempt success? A cohort studyAlison J Wright
Health Psychology, King s College London, London, UK
Addiction 102:1657-64. 2007..This study examines whether attributing smoking to genetic influences is associated with reduced quitting and whether this effect is mediated by perceived control over smoking... - Value-added education and smoking uptake in schools: a cohort studyWolfgang A Markham
School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, UK
Addiction 103:155-61. 2008..To show that schools achieving higher examination pass and lower truancy rates than expected, given that their pupil populations (high value-added schools) are associated with a lower incidence of smoking among pupils (13-14 years)... - School culture as an influencing factor on youth substance useSherri Bisset
Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire en sante, Universite de Montreal, CP 6128, Succ Centre Ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:485-90. 2007.... - The partial smoking ban in licensed establishments and health inequalities in England: modelling studyAlan A Woodall
Telford and Wrekin Primary Care Trust, Telford TF1 5RY
BMJ 331:488-9. 2005 - Does exercise in adolescence prevent smoking uptake?Paul Aveyard
Addiction 102:1025-6. 2007 - A preliminary investigation into factors influencing limiting long-standing illness among UK university graduates: a retrospective cohort studyWolfgang A Markham
School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Health (London) 10:47-73. 2006..These results support the idea that opportunities for good human functioning are culturally determined and affect health... - Motivational interviewing for smokersPaul Aveyard
Br J Gen Pract 57:67. 2007 - Association of COMT Val108/158Met genotype with smoking cessationMarcus R Munafo
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK
Pharmacogenet Genomics 18:121-8. 2008..We also investigated the association of the COMT genotype with withdrawal and mood symptoms, to identify possible mediating mechanisms by which the COMT genotype might influence response to NRT...