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Tobacco smoking and exposure to second-hand and third-hand smoke in adults

Background Tobacco smoking is the most important cause of premature morbidity and mortality. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) provide the European Union Member States with policies aimed at reducing the onset of tobacco use, increasing tobacco cessation rates and reducing the demand for tobacco products. The […]

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E-learning program for improving smoking cessation interventions in Spain

Background: Smoking consumption is high in Spain (overall 23.0% of Spanish population >16 years are smokers, 27.6% of men and 18.6% of women). Despite this data, smoking cessation counseling interventions are still low frequent in clinical settings. Aim: This e-learning implementation and innovation research project is designed to enhance health professionals’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviors

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Innovative e-learning educational resource to improve smoking cessation knowledge among healthcare students

Background: Tobacco use is a significant public health hazard, responsible for nearly 700.000 annual deaths in Europe. Despite these figures, still 28% of European adults are smokers with the consequently risk of maintaining and even increasing the burden of tobacco-related diseases in the old continent. Treating tobacco dependence is both effective and cost-effective and is

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Tobacco cessation among smokers under alcohol and/or cannabis treatment

Background Around 80% of people with a substance abuse disorder for alcohol and/or cannabis are smokers. The process of abandonment of these principal substances constitutes an opportunity for quitting smoking. However, little is known about if these smokers are offered cessation treatment at Drug Abuse Care Centres (DACC) and which are their experiences, barriers, and

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Tobacco consumption, training, attitudes and knowledge of psychology professionals registered in Spain

Background information The psychological treatment of smoking is a cost-effective, dose-dependent intervention, although in our environment there are very few professionals of psychology who are sufficiently trained in everything and that the intervention on behaviour should be part of the intervention routine of any psychologist. The attitudes, behaviour and skills of psychologists in Spain in

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Validation of the test-item bank PROMIS of irritability in patients that initiate treatment to quit smoking

Background Irritability is an important symptom that has been identified in individuals that quit smoking. It has a prevalence of 80% in patients that initiates specific treatment to quit smoking (Fagerström, 2002; Hughes & Hatsukami, 1986). 48 hours after the last cigarette, those patients feel an increase of their irritability. Since this moment, that irritability

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Regulations to protect bystanders from exposure to e-cigarette aerosol in European Countries

Regulatory Approaches to Protect Bystanders from Exposure to Secondhand Aerosol of Electronic Cigarettes in European Countries (RASHA-E Study) Background There is conclusive evidence that e-cigarette use increases airborne concentrations of particulate matter and nicotine in indoor environments compared to background level. Thus, harm to bystanders exposed to the exhaled aerosols might occur.  To minimise passive

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Joint Action on Tobacco Control

JATC: Joint Action on Tobacco Control Smoking and other forms of tobacco consumption are considered the single most important cause of preventable morbidity and premature mortality worldwide. Efforts to reduce the devastation of tobacco-related deaths and illness in the EU consist of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

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Patrón de uso, aceptabilidad y percepción de riesgo de los cigarrillos electrónicos

Patrón de uso, aceptabilidad y percepción de riesgo de los cigarrillos electrónicos: estudio prospectivo de cohortes con biomarcadores [Información para participantes] Introducción En la actualidad, el interés hacia los cigarrillos electrónicos ha aumentado por parte de la población fumadora y algunos investigadores. El cigarrillo electrónico es un aparato electrónico con forma de cigarrillo (también hay

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