B Borrelli

..Patterns of smoking, dropping out, and quitting between Weeks 5 and 12 were different between exercisers and controls. Dropouts should be considered as a separate category from smokers...

..This cross-sectional study examined home care nurses' attitudes, beliefs, and counseling behaviors regarding counseling their home care patients who smoke...

..Incorporating smoking cessation into home-based medical care can proactively reach high-risk smokers who may not have access to (or spontaneously seek) smoking cessation...

..The mean proportion adherence to treatment fidelity strategies was .55; 15.5% of articles achieved greater than or equal to .80. This tool may be useful for researchers, grant reviewers, and editors planning and evaluating trials...

..The goals of this paper were to: (1) identify factors associated with adherence to a protocol-defined quit date and (2) determine whether such adherence predicts cessation outcome (relapse)...

..05). Nurse misinformation could lead to inaccurate recommendations and failure to capitalize on the teachable moment provided by the medical encounter...

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..To discuss methods of preservation of treatment fidelity in health behavior change trials conducted in public health contexts...

..ER visits and asthma symptoms) post-treatment. Results will help tailor interventions to this population, and identify mechanisms of behavior change that result in adaptive health outcomes for smokers and their children who have asthma...

..Next steps for innovative, theory-based treatments with special populations and with general populations of smokers are discussed...

..To examine the influence of risk perception on intentions to quit smoking and post-treatment abstinence...

..Identification of pretreatment differences is important for cultural adaptation of evidenced-based smoking cessation treatments...

..Latino children have higher rates of asthma morbidity than other groups. The current study compared the effectiveness of a newly developed smoking cessation treatment with existing clinical guidelines for smoking cessation...

..Weight gain predicted relapse, but for men only. Female gender also predicted relapse. The results led the authors to question whether postcessation weight gain interventions should be restricted to women smokers...

..SubD does not appear to be on a continuum with Non-Dep and MDD groups, but rather warrants further investigation as a discrete subset of smokers. The implications for assessment and treatment are discussed...

..7 kg) but greater than that for 30 mg (M = 3.6 kg). Fluoxetine appears to forestall postcessation weight gain, allowing time for the weight-conscious smoker to focus on quitting smoking rather than on preventing weight gain...

..Weight gain was found to be associated with subsequent relapse among abstainers. Implications and treatment recommendations are discussed...

..05, and more likelihood of being abstinent, chi2(1, N = 513) = 18.1, p < .001. Attaining a higher fluoxetine blood level improved the likelihood of completing behavioral treatment and increased the probability of achieving abstinence...

..Although several reviews discuss women and smoking in general, this review focuses exclusively on the role of depression in womens' smoking...

..We prospectively examined whether training home health care nurses is associated with changes in attitudes towards smoking cessation counseling and counseling behaviors...

..01). The NICU may provide a teachable moment in which parents can be assisted with quitting smoking, thus improving their own health and the health of their babies...

..g., fighting, drug use, and high risk sexual activity) were associated with decreased likelihood of cessation. Findings from this study may inform efforts to develop more effective smoking prevention and treatment programs for youth...

..To determine the relative predictive utility of measures of behavior-change principles on treatment adherence in individuals with obstructive sleep apnea...

..We investigated predictors of intervention completion and assessment completion among Latino smokers (n = 131) with asthmatic children participating in a home-based asthma education study that included smoking cessation counseling...

..These results suggest that, even in the context of poor health and limited physical functioning, smokers are concerned about weight gain after quitting...

..Finally, we outline some strengths and weaknesses of taking a behavior change approach to the problem of poor CPAP adherence...

..Results support a modest, short-term effect of fluoxetine on smoking cessation and consideration of alternative models for handling missing data...

..Lifetime history of major depression does not appear to be an independent risk factor for cessation failure in smoking cessation treatment...

..Specifically, we investigated whether caregivers' self-perceived risk of smoking is directly associated with their perception of the risks of smoking to their child...

..S. Radloff, 1977). The findings suggest that alcoholic smokers with low depressive symptoms are more receptive to quitting smoking after sustained alcohol abstinence...

..50, p<.05). Patient perspectives on treatment may have a role in patient outcomes and should be explored as a dimension of treatment process...

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..The workgroup concludes that trials should report both assessment of a prolonged period of abstinence of 6 months or longer, in addition to the traditional 7-day point prevalence outcome...

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..Major outcome studies are reviewed, nuances associated with the use of MI in health promotion and chronic disease prevention are described, and future directions are offered...

..Funding agencies, reviewers, and journal editors are encouraged to make treatment fidelity a standard part of the conduct and evaluation of health behavior intervention research...

..Results indicate that lower pretreatment PM may inhibit long-term cessation. Smokers with lower baseline PM may benefit from treatment that increases PM...

..Science will be crucial in addressing the global tobacco pandemic, and SRNT is uniquely positioned to further tobacco science and research capacity on a global basis...

..The MET therapy performed best under the condition of flexible delivery of PAP, although differences were not statistically significant. Implications are discussed...

..CONCLUSIONS: Results indicate that 60 mg of fluoxetine improves both positive and negative mood states after quitting smoking and that diminished positive affect may be an overlooked affective response to smoking cessation...

..There is a need for increased commitment from organizations to support global tobacco control research...

..Results of this study will help to determine whether this type of comprehensive school-based program can serve as a model to improve care for urban children and reduce disparities...