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Mass media for smoking cessation in adolescentsLaura J Solomon
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 0134, USA
Health Educ Behav 36:642-59. 2009..A media campaign based on social cognitive constructs produced a modest overall effect on smoking prevalence among adolescents, but the role of theory-based constructs is unclear...
Predictors of postpartum relapse to smokingLaura J Solomon
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 0134, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 90:224-7. 2007..Most women's first postpartum cigarettes were unplanned, in the presence of another smoker, and while experiencing negative affect. The findings suggest targets for interventions to reduce postpartum relapse...- Psychological symptoms following smoking cessation in pregnant smokersLaura J Solomon
Departments of Family Medicine and Psychology, University of Vermont, Vermont 05405, USA
J Behav Med 29:151-60. 2006..These findings should temper concerns that quitting smoking may have detrimental psychological consequences during pregnancy... - Cognitive barriers to calling a smoking quitlineLaura J Solomon
Health Promotion Research, University of Vermont, 429 AR4, 1 South Prospect Street, Burlington, VT 05401 3444, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 11:1339-46. 2009..This study examined cognitive barriers that might prevent cigarette smokers who are interested in quitting from calling a smoking quitline... - Self-efficacy and outcome expectations for quitting among adolescent smokersLaura J Solomon
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
Addict Behav 31:1122-32. 2006..These associations remained when adjusting for baseline smoking level and other sub-scales. The findings lend support for the possible role of affect regulation in smoking reduction in adolescents... - Does extended proactive telephone support increase smoking cessation among low-income women using nicotine patches?Laura J Solomon
Department of Family Practice, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Prev Med 40:306-13. 2005..It is unclear whether proactive telephone support enhances smoking cessation beyond the provision of nicotine replacement therapy alone... - Spontaneous quitting: self-initiated smoking cessation in early pregnancyLaura Solomon
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 0134, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 6:S203-16. 2004..We review studies that have tested strategies to maintain abstinence among spontaneous quitters, and we conclude the article with gaps identified in the literature that warrant further study... - Maternal smoking and its association with birth weightIra M Bernstein
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Burgess 217, FAHC, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401 1435, USA
Obstet Gynecol 106:986-91. 2005..Maternal smoking has been associated with a reduction in newborn birth weight. We sought to estimate how the pattern of maternal smoking throughout pregnancy influences newborn size... - Effects of smoking cessation with voucher-based contingency management on birth outcomesStephen T Higgins
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, 1 South Prospect Street, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Addiction 105:2023-30. 2010..This study examined whether smoking cessation using voucher-based contingency management (CM) improves birth outcomes... - The influence of response mode on study results: offering cigarette smokers a choice of postal or online completion of a surveyPeter W Callas
Medical Biostatistics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 0082, USA
J Med Internet Res 12:e46. 2010..It is unclear whether offering online data collection to study participants affects compliance or produces bias... - Effects of voucher-based incentives on abstinence from cigarette smoking and fetal growth among pregnant womenSarah H Heil
Departments of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Addiction 103:1009-18. 2008..This study examined whether voucher-based reinforcement therapy (VBRT) contingent upon smoking abstinence during pregnancy is an effective method for decreasing maternal smoking during pregnancy and improving fetal growth... - Educational disadvantage and cigarette smoking during pregnancyStephen T Higgins
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 104:S100-5. 2009..We suggest that strategies to increase educational attainment be included with more conventional tobacco-control policies in efforts to reduce smoking among girls and young women... - Examining maternal weight gain during contingency-management treatment for smoking cessation among pregnant womenYukiko Washio
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 114:73-6. 2011..This study shows no evidence of excessive maternal weight gain among pregnant women receiving a CM intervention for smoking cessation... - Effects of cigarette smoking cessation on breastfeeding durationTara M Higgins
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 12:483-8. 2010..Correlational studies have confirmed associations between smoking status and breastfeeding duration, but whether smoking cessation increases breastfeeding duration has not been established... - A randomized, controlled trial of NRT-aided gradual vs. abrupt cessation in smokers actively trying to quitJohn R Hughes
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 111:105-13. 2010..One liability of gradual reduction may be that it allows smokers to delay their quit date... - Evaluation of a community breast screening promotion programJohn K Worden
Office of Health Promotion Research, University of Vermont, Burlington 05401, USA
Prev Med 35:349-61. 2002..This program promoted increased use of mammography, clinical breast examination, and breast self-examination through community organization, physician training, and public education... - Goals indicate motivation to quit smokingErica N Peters
Departmentsof Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 5401, USA
Addiction 102:1158-63. 2007..To test if goals indicate motivation to quit smoking and predict which smokers will make a quit attempt... - A pilot study on voucher-based incentives to promote abstinence from cigarette smoking during pregnancy and postpartumStephen T Higgins
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 6:1015-20. 2004..The magnitude of these treatment effects exceed levels typically observed with pregnant and recently postpartum smokers, and the maintenance of effects through 24 weeks postpartum extends the duration beyond those reported previously... - Triggers of heavier and lighter cigarette smoking in college studentsRebecca A Krukowski
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
J Behav Med 28:335-45. 2005..g., calm). If a replication of this study produces similar results, there could be implications for public policy, particularly the regulation of smoking in venues where alcohol is served... - Smoking status in the initial weeks of quitting as a predictor of smoking-cessation outcomes in pregnant womenStephen T Higgins
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 85:138-41. 2006..Any smoking during the initial 2 weeks of attempting to quit predicts poor short- and longer-term outcomes in the general population of cigarette smokers. The present study examined whether that rule applies to pregnant women... - Biochemical verification of smoking status in pregnant and recently postpartum womenStephen T Higgins
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, USA
Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 15:58-66. 2007.... - Mass media interventions to reduce youth smoking prevalenceBrian S Flynn
Office of Health Promotion Research, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05401, USA
Am J Prev Med 39:53-62. 2010..Mass media interventions for reduction of youth cigarette smoking have been recommended based on a broad array of evidence, although few randomized community trials have been reported... - Both smoking reduction with nicotine replacement therapy and motivational advice increase future cessation among smokers unmotivated to quitMatthew J Carpenter
Department of Psychology, University of Vermont, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 72:371-81. 2004..01). Results indicate smoking reduction using NRT does not undermine cessation but rather increases the likelihood of quitting to a degree similar to motivational advice... - Motivating smokers in the hospital pulmonary function laboratory to quit smoking by use of the lung age conceptDavid A Kaminsky
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 13:1161-6. 2011..The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of lung age to motivate a quit attempt among smokers presenting to a hospital pulmonary function testing (PFT) laboratory... - Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) Model: testing direct and mediated treatment effects on condom use among women in low-income housingEileen S Anderson
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Psychology, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Ann Behav Med 31:70-9. 2006.... - Telephone support for pregnant smokers who want to stop smokingLaura J Solomon
Department of Psychology at the University of Vermont in Burlington, USA
Health Promot Pract 6:105-8. 2005..These findings suggest that proactive telephone peer support is a viable way to help pregnant women stop smoking during pregnancy... - State legislators' beliefs about legislation that restricts youth access to tobacco productsNell H Gottlieb
Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712, USA
Health Educ Behav 30:209-24. 2003....