Smoking Cessation - Science topic

Conducting a literature review involves several steps. Here's a brief guide:

1. Define Research Question:

- Formulate a clear research question, such as "What is the impact of nurse-led smoking cessation support on long-term outcomes for patients with schizophrenia?"

2. Search Strategy:

- Identify relevant databases (e.g., PubMed, PsycINFO).

- Develop a search string with keywords related to nursing-led smoking cessation and schizophrenia.

3. Inclusion Criteria:

- Specify criteria for including studies (e.g., intervention by nurses, long-term outcomes, focus on schizophrenia patients).

- Define study types (e.g., randomized controlled trials, cohort studies).

4. Initial Search:

- Execute the search and retrieve relevant articles.

- Record details such as title, authors, abstract, and publication year.

5. Screening and Selection:

- Apply inclusion criteria to filter articles.

- Review titles and abstracts to identify potentially relevant studies.

6. Full-text Review:

- Assess the full text of selected articles against inclusion criteria.

- Document reasons for excluding any articles.

7. Data Extraction:

- Extract relevant data from included studies (e.g., study design, participants, interventions, outcomes).

8. Synthesis of Results:

- Analyze and summarize findings from selected studies.

- Identify themes and patterns related to nurse-led smoking cessation in patients with schizophrenia.

9. PRISMA Diagram:

- Create a PRISMA diagram to illustrate the flow of studies through the review process, from initial identification to final inclusion.

10. CASP Tool:

- Use the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) tool to assess the quality of included studies. Evaluate aspects like study design, bias, and generalizability.

11. Write the Review:

- Organize your literature review with an introduction, methodology, results, discussion, and conclusion.

it is just a simplified guide. Adjustments may be needed based on the specific requirements of your review and the available literature.

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Dear Yuval Arbel , you may also ask authors directly via RG.

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Michelle Katmarian I'm not very clear but if i'm right. Yes, i think it's important to check the relationship (attitude and behavior). Attitude of PCPs on e-cigarettes will be known after the results of your study, the results will be positive or negative, if it is more towards negative than it shows they (PCPs) might behave towards NON SCREENING (or using e-cigarettes as a form of cessation towards actual smoking is good - according to them). At the same time, if you find positive (let's say 75%), you may still find out some of the items (your items of e-cigarettes - questionnaire) in which PCPs will be inclined to negative side. And so accordingly, this will help you know what could be better for PCPs towards e-cigarettes. Your suggestions (after the results) might include dissemination of effect of e-cigarettes on adolescents, more stringent policies (Govt./Private organisations), etc. I hope I have given the information you need. Good luck...!

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It's really a bit of both depending on whether a behavior is on the continuum from behavior reward association to habit formation. You can test this by, for instance, reversing the reward contingency. If it's early during learning, behavior can be more easily extinguished, as compared to a later, "habit" phase. -Ray

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Thank you Nanda Gopal Loganathan

.I have searched but I didn't found the suitable journal with good acceptance rate.

Dear, Smoking cessation will have the highest decreasing mortality rate.

First of all find out healthy products ,roots or leaves that are useful health wise in malaysia ,the herberlist and traditional practitioner may have knowledge of some natural plant that are medicinal that may be used to replace tobacco product or may also be more appealing that e-ciggarate .Some time u may think of something that may be introduced into e cigarette and reverses the urge for smoking.

It is a mistake using single session hypnosis for smoking cessation. Treatment for smoking cessation requires a more complex treatment where hypnosis is an adjuvant for efficacy. Other strategy have not efficacy or it is very partial or brief. 

Identifying cannabis use in social media is harder than it may seem at first. Python can be used but doesn't code the images. Hashtag and word matching are searchable and countable but will also miss visual portrayal/cues.

Content analysis of cannabis use can be done to catch visual portrayal/cues but in my experience it is often difficult to distinquish cannabis smoking from smoking cigarettes or self-rolled tobacco cigarettes, and unless the tobacco or cannabis is clearly shown or there is a verbal identfifier, the coder may not be sure what is in a pipe or bong (tobacco vs cannabis). One approach to get reliability (e.g. Krippendorff's alpha) on a difficult measure such as this would be to code for smoking not otherwise specified (cannabis or tobacco) and have a separate code for smoking identified visually or verbally as tobacco and another for cannabis. Use 2 or more coders and it is better to use 3 and  train on at least 10% of the total. Also, there are many street names for drugs (cannabis, pot, weed etc..,) so it is important to train the coder for these.

Good luck!

Hi Joyce, I am now Professor Emeritus (2014) from George Washington U (2014)

and have moved to Florida. I published the 5th edition of my "Evaluation ..." textbook with Oxford U, Press (2015) and continue to be involved with smoking and drinking research with pregnant women. I think one of the primary issues with NRT and youth (< 17) is age and Informed Consent. I also suspect that legal liability is an issue. Cheers

Richard

Merci Marc'.. and thank you David and Wendy for your insight.

Dear Virginia

The answer to your question is "No". But I must admit there are no studies that have investigated your question because it is somewhat counterintuitive. Waterpipes combined a boring process of charcoal with the heating of tobacco with a number of additives and the result is an inhaled mixture that contains many more toxic substances than smoke from tobacco cigarettes. Both include nicotine, the main addictive substance in tobacco addiction. 

Many people think that water pipe smoking is less harmful because the smoke is "filtered" through water. The main effect of the water is the cooling and humidification of the inhaled smoke. The other aspect which may suggest it may be a method to quit is that it is used less frequently and mostly in a social context. But real nicotine addicts will hardly be able to reduce nicotine consumption by purely changing to conventional water pipe use.

Regards

Macé

Hello,

I think you could try contacting Icek Ajzen (who has realized research gate). Your own website is http://people.umass.edu/aizen/

He is the author of the theory of planned behavior and may help in your question.

In the United States, it is also the case that all research involving human subjects should be subject to ethical review by Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). While it is normally necessary to have research subjects sign a consent form to participate in the study, informed consent is not necessary when 1)the research poses no threat to the research subjects, 2) when procuring informed consent would render the research invalid, and 3) when the information to be gained is important. An example is studying how many people wash their hands after going to the bathroom, in order to determine whether education is needed in order to stop the spread of disease. 

There are a great many validated randomized placebo control trials looking at effective interventions for tobacco dependence. I suggest that you look at Cochrane Database for Reviews.There is little to no evidence that acupuncture has greater than a placebo effect. Long term (greater than 1 year) serially biochemically  validated abstinence is the "gold standard" for abstinence efficacy. Having said that, a good randomized control trial of any intervention ( alternative--"herbals" etc) are the corner stone of advancement ( see where Cytisine became Varenicline) so I strongly recommend good trials of these substances.

We also measure cotinine via saliva samples collected in a salavette.  ABA in Nottm charge £25 per sample but I understand that there are other options available.  We collect all our samples then send off in one huge batch which I believe is cheaper.  Hope this is helpful.

This one also just popped up on my feed: 

Serena,

Try the below article; it is old but it might give you references that may give you more leads for other articles that may help yo.

Schneider, N.G., & Jarvik, M.E (1984). Time course of smoking withdrawal symptoms as a function of nicotine replacement. Pharmacology, 82 (1), 143-4

Thanks,

Ben Olwe

Heidhy:

The original MRSS scale, in English, was provided to fellow professionals by by Dr. Ivan Berlin, of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière (Paris). His current email contact is:

And he is also a ResearchGate member so you may also be able to contact him directly through is profile contact:

In addition, José Antônio Baddini Martinez at University of São Paulo (at Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil), worked with an original English version (from Dr. Berlin), translated in his study into Portuguese, so he may also be able to provide the English copy; his email contact is:

jabmarti@fmrp.usp.br

Finally, an English translation of the 30 MRSS questions can be obtained at:

I think in smoking cessation research in this group we should assure them about security and safety our work.I suggest at the first step pay attention to their feeling and motivation about smoking cessation.

Expired-air CO testing for smoking is prone to false positives from environmental CO and only assesses smoking habit over a 6-8 hour period due to short half-life. Cotinine testing is the prefered method. Rapid, point-of-care tests are available and well validated. Details from grahamcope@btconnect.com