Jennifer McClure

..This knowledge will inform planning for a future public oral health promotion program targeted to tobacco quitline callers...

..Participant engagement influences treatment effectiveness, but it is unknown which intervention design features increase treatment engagement for online smoking cessation programs...

..However, the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of genetically tailoring treatment in real-world clinical settings are unknown...

..Outcome data are currently being collected and are not presented, but recruitment data confirm the feasibility of enrolling smokers at varying stages of readiness to quit...

..We assessed the need for and acceptability of targeting tobacco quitline callers for an oral health promotion intervention...

..The purpose of this paper is to evaluate costs associated with the online intervention trial, Making Effective Nutritional Choices for Cancer Prevention (MENU), and to connect the findings to the study outcomes...

..This article describes an assessment of saliva biospecimen samples collected through the mail, trial participant demographic and behavioral characteristics, and their association with saliva and DNA quantity and quality...

..Providing smokers with biologically based evidence of smoking-related disease risk or physical impairment may be an effective way to motivate cessation...

..Few studies have rigorously evaluated whether providing biologically based health-risk feedback is more effective than standard interventions in increasing smokers' motivation to quit and their long-term abstinence...

..Although the preliminary evidence is promising, more research is needed to determine the efficacy of using biomarkers and the limits of the strategy's effectiveness. Future investigations should address these issues...

..Groups had similar 30-day abstinence rates at 6 months (31.5% PH+ vs. 35.4% PH-, p = .35). In sum, having a psychiatric diagnosis in this trial did not predict worse treatment outcome or worse treatment side effects...

..We compared long-term outcomes among smokers with and without impaired lung functioning who received brief counseling highlighting their spirometric test results...

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..Varenicline may be associated with greater mood disturbance and side-effects among smokers with psychiatric history, but empirical evidence is limited. Differential treatment effectiveness by psychiatric history may also exist...

..There was no difference in repeated point-prevalence abstinence at 6 and 12 months (11% MEC vs. 10% UC, p = ns). Outcomes were similar in a subgroup of 229 women who, at baseline, were interested in quitting in the next 6 months...

..Potential limitations of this treatment strategy and issues requiring additional research are also discussed...

..06). The results suggest (a) a dose-response relation between baseline drinking and duration of smoking abstinence, and (b) that heavier drinkers are less likely to quit smoking over a 4-year period...

..However, there is little data to indicate what percent of smokers are interested in receiving online smoking cessation services or how best to recruit smokers to Internet-based programs...

..This article looks at the rationale and evidence for using biomarker feedback as a cessation aid during pregnancy. Limitations of the existing research and key considerations for future investigations are presented...

..To identify modifiable correlates of chlamydia screening that could offer intervention targets to enhance screening...

..We also review emerging evidence that genetic profiling may one day be a useful consideration for tailoring NRT treatment...

..Despite the recommendations of numerous clinical practice guidelines, testing of at-risk women for Chlamydia trachomatis infection remains low. We evaluated an intervention to increase guideline-recommended chlamydia screening...

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..Our objective was to examine the relationship between continuity of care and chlamydia screening in adolescent and young women, a preventive service where large performance gaps exist...

..21%, p < .01). Counseling may improve tolerance of this medication and reduce the rate of discontinuation due to side effects...

..Other potential uses of this system, and potential limitations, are discussed...

..It is important to understand the extent to which prescribed medications are actually taken by smokers, how this influences smoking cessation outcomes, and what factors may influence adherence...

..Because of funding limitations some provide short courses of NRT. No randomized trial has evaluated the relative benefit of short versus standard treatment...

..Intervention efforts should attempt to increase smokers' motivation and confidence in their abilities to change their eating patterns and educate them about the health benefits of eating FV...

..3% of the smoking population within a 3-month period. Offering a short course of free NRT is an effective way to promote the use of quitlines...

..Such knowledge is important as it may lead to the development of more targeted, and therefore potentially more effective, cessation interventions. ..

..Information learned from this study will advance the science of tailoring health risk communications, as well as inform how to best design an online motivational intervention for smoking cessation. ..

..This work will provide valuable information about the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of this comprehensive treatment approach and will lay the ground work for future research in this area. ..

..If effective, this treatment strategy could have broad potential as a public health intervention. ..

..Information learned from this study will advance the science of tailoring health risk communications, as well as inform how to best design an online motivational intervention for smoking cessation. ..