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| Shu Hong ZhuSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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A population study of low-rate smokers: quitting history and instability over timeShu Hong Zhu
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093 0905, USA
Health Psychol 22:245-52. 2003..The overall trend is an increasing proportion of low-consumption smokers while smoking prevalence declines. The dynamic process has implications for tobacco control efforts and for addiction theory...- A comparison of smoking behaviors among medical and other college students in ChinaTong Zhu
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0905, USA
Health Promot Int 19:189-96. 2004..Action on a societal level is urgently needed to change Chinese social norms regarding smoking... 
The California Tobacco Control Program's effect on adult smokers: (1) Smoking cessationKaren Messer
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, 3855 Health Sciences Drive, La Jolla, California 92093 0901, USA
Tob Control 16:85-90. 2007..To estimate national population trends in long-term smoking cessation by age group and to compare cessation rates in California (CA) with those of two comparison groups of states...- High quit ratio among Asian immigrants in California: implications for population tobacco cessationShu Hong Zhu
Cancer Center, Mail Code 0905, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0905, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 9:S505-14. 2007..These results suggest that creating an impetus to drive up quit attempts, which often results from a significant change in social norms toward smoking, is the most important strategy to improve cessation on the population level... - The effects of a multilingual telephone quitline for Asian smokers: a randomized controlled trialShu Hong Zhu
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0905, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 104:299-310. 2012..In this study, we tested the effects of telephone counseling for smoking cessation in Chinese-, Korean-, and Vietnamese-speaking smokers... - Interventions to increase smoking cessation at the population level: how much progress has been made in the last two decades?Shu Hong Zhu
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0905, USA
Tob Control 21:110-8. 2012..Future research should examine whether increasing the rate of quit attempts would be key to improving the population cessation rate... - Telephone counseling for smoking cessation: effects of single-session and multiple-session interventionsS H Zhu
Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 64:202-11. 1996..7% for multiple counseling. A dose-response relation was observed, as multiple sessions produced significantly higher abstinence rates than a single session. The first week after quitting seems to be the critical period for intervention... - Most Latino smokers in California are low-frequency smokersShu Hong Zhu
University of California, San Diego, CA 92093 0905, USA
Addiction 102:104-11. 2007..We examine the phenomenon of low-frequency smoking (non-daily smoking or smoking </= 5 cigarettes daily) among California Latinos and address its implications for addiction theory and population tobacco control... - Quitting cigarettes completely or switching to smokeless tobacco: do US data replicate the Swedish results?S H Zhu
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive 0905, La Jolla, CA 92093 0905, USA
Tob Control 18:82-7. 2009..This study examines whether similar results emerge in the United States, one of few other western countries where smokeless tobacco has long been widely available... - Use of a smokers' quitline by Asian language speakers: results from 15 years of operation in CaliforniaShu Hong Zhu
Cancer Center 0905, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0905, USA
Am J Public Health 100:846-52. 2010..We examined state quitline utilization by smokers who called Chinese-, Vietnamese-, or Korean-language lines, and compared their usage rates to those of Asians and Whites calling the English-language line... - Disparity in smoking prevalence by education: can we reduce it?Shu Hong Zhu
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0905, United States of America
Glob Health Promot 17:29-39. 2010..It proposes that research should focus more on increasing the rate of change among less advantage groups and less on the relative disparity compared to some other group... 
Quitline utilization rates of African-American and white smokers: the California experienceShu Hong Zhu
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 0905, USA
Am J Health Promot 25:S51-8. 2011..To compare the utilization rate of a statewide tobacco quitline by African-American smokers to that of white smokers...- Non-smokers seeking help for smokers: a preliminary studyS H Zhu
University of California, San Diego, California, USA
Tob Control 15:107-13. 2006..To examine the phenomenon of non-smokers spontaneously taking action to seek help for smokers; to provide profiles of non-smoking helpers by language and ethnic groups... - Perception of foreign cigarettes and their advertising in China: a study of college students from 12 universitiesS H Zhu
Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093 0905, USA
Tob Control 7:134-40. 1998..To examine how deeply foreign cigarette advertising had penetrated the Chinese market when a new ban on cigarette advertising was enacted in February 1995... - Telephone counseling as adjuvant treatment for nicotine replacement therapy in a "real-world" settingS H Zhu
Cancer Center, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093 0905 USA
Prev Med 31:357-63. 2000..This paper reports results from a public health program that uses proactive telephone counseling as support for physician advice and provides adjuvant treatment for NRT users... - Depression and smoking during pregnancyShu Hong Zhu
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093 0905, USA
Addict Behav 27:649-58. 2002..These results suggest that interventions to help pregnant women quit smoking may need to take a more comprehensive approach to be effective... - A method to obtain a randomized control group where it seems impossible. A case study in program evaluationS H Zhu
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093 0905, USA
Eval Rev 23:363-77. 1999..A large smoking intervention project is used to illustrate two variations of this method... - A centralised telephone service for tobacco cessation: the California experienceS H Zhu
University of California, San Diego 92093 0905, USA
Tob Control 9:II48-55. 2000..As many states, regions, and nations are contemplating various telephone programs as part of large scale anti-tobacco campaigns, this paper presents a practical model... - Evidence of real-world effectiveness of a telephone quitline for smokersShu Hong Zhu
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093 0905, USA
N Engl J Med 347:1087-93. 2002..The question remains, however, whether those results can be translated into real-world effectiveness... - Nicotine patches and quitline counseling to help hospitalized smokers stay quit: study protocol for a randomized controlled trialSharon Cummins
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, La Jolla, San Diego, CA 92093 0905, USA
Trials 13:128. 2012..This project establishes a practical model that lends itself to broader dissemination, while testing the effectiveness of the interventions in a rigorous randomized trial... - Perceived barriers to adopting an Asian-language quitline service: a survey of state funding agenciesYue Lin Zhuang
Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0905, USA
J Community Health 37:1058-65. 2012..This centralized multi-state Asian-language quitline operation, which helps reduce practical barriers in adoption and disparity in access to service, could be extended... - Current major depression among smokers using a state quitlineKiandra K Hebert
Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 92093 0905, USA
Am J Prev Med 40:47-53. 2011..Smokers seeking treatment to quit smoking are generally not assessed for current depression, yet depression among smokers may influence quitting outcome... - Tobacco cessation quitlines in North America: a descriptive studySharon E Cummins
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0905, USA
Tob Control 16:i9-15. 2007..However, information on how these quitlines operate in actual practice is not often readily available... - Reaching young adult smokers through quitlinesSharon E Cummins
Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0905, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1402-5. 2007 - Intermittent smokers who used to smoke daily: a preliminary study on smoking situationsQuyen B Nguyen
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive 0905, La Jolla, CA 92093 0905, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 11:164-70. 2009..As many as half of intermittent (i.e., nondaily) smokers once smoked daily. Little is known about their transition from daily to intermittent smoking, a process that eventually leads them to forego smoking on some days... - Telephone-based tobacco-cessation treatment: re-enrollment among diverse groupsBeatriz H Carlini
Free and Clear, Inc, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:73-6. 2008..This study aimed to determine the rates of quitline re-enrollment and to compare the responses of people of varying racial/ethnic identities to invitations utilizing different communication strategies... - Benefits of telephone care over primary care for smoking cessation: a randomized trialLawrence C An
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:536-42. 2006..The objective of this study is to determine if telephone care increases smoking cessation compared with brief clinician intervention as part of routine health care... - The impact of financial incentives and a patient registry on preventive care quality: increasing provider adherence to evidence-based smoking cessation practice guidelinesJoachim Roski
National Committee for Quality Assurance, Washington, DC 20036, USA
Prev Med 36:291-9. 2003....
Research Grants
- Smokers' Quitline for Asian Language SpeakersShu Hong Zhu; Fiscal Year: 2007..Third, by targeting Asian language speakers this study addresses the issue of ethnic disparities, which has been identified by many (including the NCI Bypass Budget) as a research priority. ..