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Coaches' attitudes toward smokeless tobacco and intentions to intervene with athletesK A Horn
School of Dentistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown 26506 9190, USA
J Sch Health 70:89-94. 2000..These findings provide support for development of training programs for middle and high school coaches to act as smokeless tobacco intervention agents...
Potential effects of active parental consent: Enrolling teen smokers into a school-based cessation programKimberly A Horn
Department of Community Medicine, Robert C Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, 1 Medical Center Drive, P O Box 9190, Morgantown, WV 26506 9190, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 11:1359-67. 2009..However, informed consent procedures requiring active parental consent may restrict or influence teen participation in critical teen cessation programs...
Who wants to quit? Characteristics of American Indian youth who seek smoking cessation interventionKimberly Horn
Translational Tobacco Reduction Research Program, Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and Prevention Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506 8110, USA
J Community Health 34:153-63. 2009....
A profile of teen smokers who volunteered to participate in school-based smoking interventionKimberly Horn
Translational Tobacco Reduction Research Program, Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and Prevention Research Center, West Virginia University, PO Box 8110, Morgantown, WV 26506 8110, USA
Tob Induc Dis 4:6. 2008..N-O-T is the most widely used teen smoking cessation program in the nation...
Feasibility of a smoking cessation intervention for teens in the emergency department: reach, implementation fidelity, and acceptabilityKimberly Horn
Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
Am J Crit Care 17:205-16. 2008..Some experts suggest that motivational interviewing can support a population health approach to reach large numbers of teen smokers without the resource demands of multi-session interventions...
Efficacy of an emergency department-based motivational teenage smoking interventionKimberly Horn
West Virginia University, Department of Community Medicine, Prevention Research Center, Office of Drug Abuse Intervention Studies, P O Box 9190, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 4:A08. 2007..Motivational interviewing techniques have been minimally researched as a function of a teenage smoking intervention. The present study examined the efficacy of a theory-based motivational tobacco intervention (MTI)...
Applying community-based participatory research principles to the development of a smoking-cessation program for American Indian teens: "telling our story"Kimberly Horn
West Virginia University, Morgantown 26505, USA
Health Educ Behav 35:44-69. 2008....
Quit and reduction rates for a pilot study of the American Indian Not On Tobacco (N-O-T) programKimberly Horn
Department of Community Medicine, Centers for Public Health Training and Research, Office of Drug Abuse Intervention Studies ODAIS, West Virginia University, PO Box 9190, Morgantown, WV 26505 9190, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 2:A13. 2005..The objective of this study, conducted during 2003 and 2004, was to determine the preliminary quit and reduction outcomes of the American Lung Association's newly adapted American Indian Not On Tobacco (N-O-T) program...
Exploring the relationship between mental health and smoking cessation: a study of rural teensKimberly Horn
Office of Drug Abuse Intervention Studies, Prevention Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
Prev Sci 5:113-26. 2004..Future cessation programming with rural youth should consider the inclusion of coping and stress management skills and mental health referral protocols as significant program components...
Appalachian teen smokers: not on tobacco 15 months laterKimberly A Horn
Office of Drug Abuse Intervention Studies, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
Am J Public Health 94:181-4. 2004..Findings suggest that N-O-T is one option for long-term smoking cessation among rural teens...
Effects of physical activity on teen smoking cessationKimberly Horn
West Virginia Prevention Research Center and Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, and Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505, USA
Pediatrics 128:e801-11. 2011..To understand the influence of physical activity on teen smoking-cessation outcomes...
Adolescent nicotine dependence and smoking cessation outcomesKimberly Horn
West Virginia University, PO Box 9190, Morgantown 26506, USA
Addict Behav 28:769-76. 2003..The brief intervention was successful with only low-dependent smokers, whereas the intensive, multisession, N-O-T intervention was effective with smokers possessing a range of nicotine dependence, including high-dependent smokers...
Teen smoking cessation: making it work through school and community partnershipsG A Dino
Office of Drug Abuse Intervention Studies, Prevention Research Center, Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 7:71-80. 2001..Finally, it describes the process by which the American Lung Association adopted and disseminated N-O-T across West Virginia and the United States...
Statewide demonstration of not on tobacco: a gender-sensitive teen smoking cessation programG A Dino
Prevention Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
J Sch Nurs 17:90-7. 2001..This study is 1 phase of an ongoing multiphase evaluation of N-O-T. This study resulted in several important findings that will help guide future teen cessation studies and tobacco cessation efforts of school health professionals...
Readiness to change problematic drinking assessed in the emergency department as a predictor of changeLuba Leontieva
Center for Rural Emergency Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
J Crit Care 20:251-6. 2005....
Beyond quitting: predictors of teen smoking cessation, reduction and acceleration following a school-based interventionSTEVEN A BRANSTETTER
Department of Psychology and Translational Tobacco Reduction Research Program, Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, United States
Drug Alcohol Depend 99:160-8. 2009..Finally, a path model demonstrated how peers, siblings and romantic partners affected tobacco use and cessation outcomes differently for males and females. Implications for interventions are discussed...
Impact and interactions between smoking and traditional prognostic factors in lung cancer progressionNancy L Guo
Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506 9300, USA
Lung Cancer 66:386-92. 2009..We sought to investigate the effect of smoking intensity on lung cancer treatment failure (represented by overall survival), and the interactions between smoking and clinicopathological factors in lung cancer progression...
Alcohol problems among young adult emergency department patients: making predictions using routine sociodemographic informationKimberly Horn
Department of Community Medicine, Center for Rural Emergency Medicine, Office of Drug Abuse Intervention Studies, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
J Crit Care 17:212-20. 2002..Implications for ED practice are discussed...
Lung cancer mortality is elevated in coal-mining areas of AppalachiaMichael Hendryx
Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, United States
Lung Cancer 62:1-7. 2008..The set of socioeconomic and health inequalities characteristic of coal-mining areas of Appalachia highlights the need to develop more diverse, alternative local economies...
Cost-effectiveness analysis of the Not On Tobacco program for adolescent smoking cessationGeri Dino
Department of Community Medicine, Prevention Research Center, West Virginia University, PO Box 9190, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
Prev Sci 9:38-46. 2008..46 years. Results indicate that N-O-T is a very cost-effective option school-based smoking cessation, as cost effective as school-based primary tobacco prevention, and potentially more cost effective than adult tobacco use cessation...
Disparities in smoking and acute respiratory illnesses among sexual minority young adultsJohn Blosnich
Translational Tobacco Reduction Research Program of the West Virginia University, Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and Prevention Research Center, P O Box 9190, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
Lung 188:401-7. 2010..Future studies are needed to explore whether chronic respiratory disease caused by smoking (i.e., lung cancer, COPD, emphysema) disproportionately affect sexual minority populations...
Teen perceptions of facilitator characteristics in a school-based smoking cessation programTraci Jarrett
West Virginia University, Translational Tobacco Reduction Research Program, PO Box 9190, Morgantown, WV 26501 9190, USA
J Sch Health 79:297-303. 2009..The purpose of this study was to investigate teens' perceptions of facilitator characteristics and the relationship between those perceptions and program outcomes...
Stage of change and smoking cessation outcomes among adolescentsGeri Dino
Department of Community Medicine, Prevention Research Center and Office of Drug Abuse Intervention Studies, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 9190, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
Addict Behav 29:935-40. 2004..In contrast, N-O-T was effective for youth regardless of baseline stage. Additionally, N-O-T participants demonstrated greater forward stage movement from baseline to postbaseline than did BI participants...
Smoking and breast cancer screening in West Virginia: opportunities for interventionCindy Tworek
Department of Pharmaceutical Systems and Policy, School of Pharmacy, West Virginia University, Charleston, WV, USA
W V Med J 105:48-53. 2009..These women can be identified and targeted as an important high risk population with unmet need for smoking cessation and breast cancer screening interventions...
A brief summary of alcohol intervention research at West Virginia University from 1998-2003James C Helmkamp
Center for Rural Emergency Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA
W V Med J 100:143-6. 2004..Follow-up rates have ranged between 45% and 61%. This article describes the methodologies and results of our SBI studies and their relevance to West Virginia health care providers...
Delay discounting and probability discounting as related to cigarette smoking status in adultsBrady Reynolds
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV, USA
Behav Processes 65:35-42. 2004..Unlike past findings, these results suggest that both delay and probability discounting are related to adult cigarette smoking; however, it also was determined that DD was a significantly stronger predictor of smoking than PD...
School-based programs: lessons learned from CATCH, Planet Health, and Not-On-TobaccoAdele Franks
Prevention Research Centers Office, MS K45 DACH NCCDPHP CDC, 3005 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 4:A33. 2007..The authors provide advice based on lessons learned from these programs to those who wish to work with young people in schools...
Recruitment barriers and successes of the American Lung Association's Not-On-Tobacco ProgramCatherine J Massey
Dept of Psychology, 226 Vincent Science Hall, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA 16057, USA
J Sch Health 73:58-63. 2003..However, recruitment was effective when active recruitment techniques such as maximized interpersonal contact involving one-on-one conversation were used...
Screening and brief intervention for alcohol problems among college students treated in a university hospital emergency departmentJames C Helmkamp
Center for Rural Emergency Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA
J Am Coll Health 52:7-16. 2003..The prevalence of alcohol problems, high rates of informed consent and acceptance of counseling, and improved outcomes suggest that the ED is an appropriate venue for engaging students at high risk for alcohol problems...
