Provider smoking cessation advice among California Asian-American smokersElisa K Tong
Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
Am J Health Promot 25:S70-4. 2011
..To determine proportions of provider advice to quit smoking for Asian-American smokers and to describe factors that may affect the provision of such advice...
National survey of U.S. health professionals' smoking prevalence, cessation practices, and beliefsElisa K Tong
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis Medical Center, 4150 V Street, Suite 2400, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 12:724-33. 2010
..Other health professionals also frequently encounter smokers, but their smoking prevalence, cessation practices, and beliefs are less well known...
Smoking prevalence and factors associated with smoking status among Vietnamese in CaliforniaE K Tong
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 12:613-21. 2010
..We analyzed Vietnamese American smoking behavior by demographic and health-related factors, including some specific to Vietnamese, in the largest tobacco-specific survey yet targeting the Vietnamese population...
Smoke-free policies among Asian-American women: comparisons by education statusElisa K Tong
Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA
Am J Prev Med 37:S144-50. 2009
..California's ethnic-specific surveys present an opportunity to disaggregate data and examine the impact of California's smoke-free social norm campaign for Asian-American women...
The Chinese community smoking cessation project: a community sensitive intervention trialCandice C Wong
Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0610, USA
J Community Health 33:363-73. 2008
..Community sensitive collaborative process facilitated implementation of study protocol in community health care settings...
Light and intermittent smoking among California's Asian AmericansElisa K Tong
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 11:197-202. 2009
..Characterizing Asian American smoking behavior accurately on a population level requires oversampling groups of different national origin and including non-English-speaking participants...
Smoking behaviors among immigrant Asian Americans: rules for smoke-free homesElisa K Tong
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:64-7. 2008
..Asian immigrants in California are significantly more likely than their counterparts in Asia to have quit smoking. Smoke-free environments may mediate this acculturation effect because such environments are not widespread in Asia...
Nondaily smokers should be asked and advised to quitElisa K Tong
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0329, USA
Am J Prev Med 30:23-30. 2006
..Cessation messages should address health risks of any smoking, ethnic differences, smoke-free messages, and situational triggers...
Bupropion for smoking cessation: a reviewElisa K Tong
Division of General Internal Medicine and Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Compr Ther 32:26-33. 2006
..Bupropion is the only antidepressant recommended as first-line pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation. Bupropion is as effective as nicotine replacement therapy and can be used in diverse populations...
ARTIST (Asian regional tobacco industry scientist team): Philip Morris' attempt to exert a scientific and regulatory agenda on AsiaE K Tong
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Tob Control 13:ii118-24. 2004
..As the local Asian tobacco monopolies and companies can have direct links with their governments, future implementation of effective tobacco control may be at odds with national priorities...
The power of paperwork: how Philip Morris neutralized the medical code for secondhand smokeDaniel M Cook
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:994-1004. 2005
..Philip Morris's reaction reveals the importance of policy decisions related to data collection and paperwork...