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'Payment by results' and smoking cessation support.

scientific article published in October 2011

'S'-shaped curve: modelling trends in smoking prevalence, uptake and cessation in Great Britain from 1973 to 2016

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

'The smoking toolkit study': a national study of smoking and smoking cessation in England

scientific article

A comparison of exposure to carcinogens among roll-your-own and factory-made cigarette smokers

scientific article published in July 2009

A comparison of the abuse liability and dependence potential of nicotine patch, gum, spray and inhaler.

scientific article published in April 2000

A double-blind placebo-controlled experimental study of nicotine: II--Effects on response inhibition and executive functioning.

scientific article published on 5 January 2007

A mobile app to aid smoking cessation: preliminary evaluation of SmokeFree28.

scientific article

A randomised placebo-controlled trial of oral hydrocortisone for treating tobacco withdrawal symptoms

scientific article published on 9 February 2011

A randomised trial of glucose tablets to aid smoking cessation.

scientific article published on 27 October 2009

A randomized, controlled trial of adding expired carbon monoxide feedback to brief stop smoking advice: Evaluation of cognitive and behavioral effects

article

A renewed call for action on alcohol policy

scientific article published on 19 March 2010

A revised checklist for writing up research reports

A smartphone app to reduce excessive alcohol consumption: Identifying the effectiveness of intervention components in a factorial randomised control trial.

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

A survey of pregnant smokers' interest in different types of smoking cessation support

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Access to data from clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.

scientific article published in May 2007

Acute effect of a brief bout of exercise on alcohol urges.

scientific article

Acute reduction in secretory immunoglobulin A following smoking cessation

scientific article

Addiction Theories and Constructs: a new series

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Addiction in China: Towards a research agenda for the next 5 years

article

Addiction's priorities when evaluating submissions

Adolescents' awareness of, and involvement with, illicit tobacco in the UK

scientific article published on 18 September 2010

Alcoholics' beliefs about responsibility for, and recovery from, their condition

article

An evaluation of the intervention against smoking in the multiple risk factor intervention trial

article

An online Paper Authoring Tool (PAT) to improve reporting of, and synthesis of evidence from, trials in behavioral sciences

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Applying principles of behaviour change to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Assessing and addressing collider bias in addiction research: the curious case of smoking and COVID-19

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Assessing drug-related harm

scientific article published in The Lancet

Assessing smoking status in children, adolescents and adults: cotinine cut-points revisited.

scientific article

Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Digital Behavior Change Intervention Engagement Scale in Users of an App for Reducing Alcohol Consumption: Evaluation Study

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Assessment of dependence and motivation to stop smoking

scientific article published on February 2004

Association of prevalence of electronic cigarette use with smoking cessation and cigarette consumption in England: a time-series analysis between 2006 and 2017

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Authors' reply to letter.

scientific article published in August 2007

Awareness of mouth cancer in Great Britain

scientific article published in February 2006

Behavior change techniques in popular alcohol reduction apps: content analysis

scientific article

Behavior change techniques used in group-based behavioral support by the English stop-smoking services and preliminary assessment of association with short-term quit outcomes

scientific article published on 7 July 2011

Behavioral correlates of individual differences in road-traffic crash risk: an examination method and findings.

scientific article

Behaviour Change Techniques Associated with Smoking Cessation in Intervention and Comparator Groups of Randomised Controlled Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Behavioural characteristics and involvement in different types of traffic accident

article

Behavioural support programmes for smoking cessation: needs and opportunities

Beliefs about the harms of long-term use of nicotine replacement therapy: perceptions of smokers in England.

scientific article published on 26 July 2012

Beliefs of stop smoking practitioners in United Kingdom on the use of nicotine replacement therapy for smoking reduction.

scientific article published on 16 December 2011

Beneficial effects of nicotine: fact or fiction?

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

COVID-19, smoking, vaping and quitting: A representative population survey in England

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Can the Dutch Government really be abandoning smokers to their fate?

scientific article published on 09 December 2011

Can we trust national smoking prevalence figures? Discrepancies between biochemically assessed and self-reported smoking rates in three countries

scientific article published on April 2007

Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Schizophrenia Receiving Continuous Medical Care

article

Cardiovascular and subjective effects of smoking before and after 24 h of abstinence from cigarettes

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

Changes in smoker characteristics in England between 2008 and 2017

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Changes in smoking prevalence in 16-17-year-old versus older adults following a rise in legal age of sale: findings from an English population study.

scientific article published on 17 August 2010

Cigarette smoking and psychophysiological stress responsiveness: effects of recent smoking and temporary abstinence

scientific article published in August 1996

Clinical trial comparing nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) plus brief counselling, brief counselling alone, and minimal intervention on smoking cessation in hospital inpatients.

scientific article published on June 2003

Cognitive and psychological correlates of smoking abstinence, and predictors of successful cessation.

scientific article published in September 2004

Complex systems and individual-level approaches to population health: a false dichotomy?

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Compulsory detention, forced detoxification and enforced labour are not ethically acceptable or effective ways to treat addiction

scientific article published on 8 May 2012

Crime and Risky Behavior in Traffic: An Example of Cross-Situational Consistency

article

Current issues and new directions inPsychology and Health: The potential contribution of health psychology to developing effective interventions to reduce tobacco smoking ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 October 2010

Decision-making style, driving style, and self-reported involvement in road traffic accidents.

scientific article published in June 1993

Development of a formal system for representing behaviour-change theories

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Development of a taxonomy of behaviour change techniques used in individual behavioural support for smoking cessation

scientific article

Development of an Intervention Setting Ontology for behaviour change: Specifying where interventions take place

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Did the introduction of varenicline in England substitute for or add to the use of other smoking cessation medications?

scientific article published on 4 May 2011

Differences in happiness between smokers, ex-smokers and never smokers: cross-sectional findings from a national household survey

scientific article published on 8 September 2011

Do Daily Fluctuations in Psychological and App-Related Variables Predict Engagement With an Alcohol Reduction App? A Series of N-Of-1 Studies

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Do daily fluctuations in psychological and app-related variables predict engagement with an alcohol reduction app? A series of N-of-1 studies (Preprint)

Do older children take in more smoke from their cigarettes? Evidence from carbon monoxide levels

article

Do social support interventions ("buddy systems") aid smoking cessation? A review

scientific article

Does belief that one is addicted promote or deter attempts at abstinence?

scientific article published in March 2011

Does it matter who you see to help you stop smoking? Short-term quit rates across specialist stop smoking practitioners in England.

scientific article published on 12 July 2012

Does smoking in adolescence affect body mass index, waist or height? Findings from a longitudinal study

scientific article published on 23 July 2007

Does switching to an ultra-low nicotine cigarette induce nicotine withdrawal effects?

scientific article published on 01 January 1984

Double-blind placebo controlled trial of dextrose tablets and nicotine patch in smoking cessation

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Drinking alcohol surrogates among clients of an alcohol-misuser treatment clinic in Novosibirsk, Russia

scientific article published on January 2009

Drug Trafficking: Time to Abolish the Death Penalty

Drug trafficking: Time to abolish the death penalty

Drug trafficking: time to abolish the death penalty

scientific article published in August 2009

Drugs and harm to society

scientific article published in The Lancet

E-cigarette research needs to adopt open science practices to improve quality

scientific article published on 04 August 2019

E-cigarette use in England 2014-2017 as a function of socioeconomic profile

article

Early dating predicts smoking during adolescence: A prospective study

scientific article published in December 2006

Effect of a short bout of exercise on tobacco withdrawal symptoms and desire to smoke.

scientific article published in October 2001

Effect of buspirone on cigarette withdrawal symptoms and short-term abstinence rates in a smokers clinic

scientific article published on 01 January 1991

Effect of cigarettes on memory search and subjective ratings.

scientific article published in February 1991

Effect of isometric exercise and body scanning on cigarette cravings and withdrawal symptoms.

scientific article published in July 2009

Effectiveness of an Online Knowledge Training and Assessment Program for Stop Smoking Practitioners

Effectiveness of an offer of the Smoke Free smartphone application for smoking cessation: protocol for a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Effectiveness of nicotine replacement therapy--a rebuttal.

scientific article published on 15 June 2012

Effectiveness of specialist group treatment for smoking cessation vs. one-to-one treatment in primary care

scientific article published on 27 January 2006

Effectiveness of training stop-smoking advisers to deliver cessation support to the UK national proposed standard versus usual care in Malaysia: a two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 21 November 2020

Effects of nicotine on finger tapping rate in non-smokers

scientific article published on 01 October 1986

Evaluation of the London Smoking Cessation Transformation Programme: a time series analysis

scientific article published on 07 December 2020

Evaluations of clinical tobacco cessation interventions in Arab populations: A systematic review

scholarly article by Abdallaziz Alzahrane et al published January 2019 in Addictive Behaviors

Examination Results of Pupils Offered Assisted Places: comparing GCE Advanced level results in independent and state schools

Expenditure on smoking and alternative nicotine delivery products: a population survey in England

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

Factors associated with smoking in student nurses

Factors associated with the efficacy of smoking cessation treatments and predictors of smoking abstinence in EAGLES.

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

Financing School-Based Education in England: Poverty, Examination Results, and Expenditure

article

Finding smoking hot-spots: a cross-sectional survey of smoking patterns by housing tenure in England

scientific article published on 29 December 2018

Gender differences in drinking practices in middle aged and older Russians

scientific article

General practitioners' views on and referral to NHS smoking cessation services

scientific article published in April 2005

German medical students lack knowledge of how to treat smoking and problem drinking

scientific article published on 3 May 2012

Global statistics on alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use: 2017 status report

article

How cost-effective is 'No Smoking Day'?

scientific article published on 14 May 2010

Hypertension and its identification among current, past and never smokers in an English population sample

scientific article published in February 2010

Identifying Evidence-Based Competences Required to Deliver Behavioural Support for Smoking Cessation

article

Increase in common cold symptoms and mouth ulcers following smoking cessation.

scientific article

Inside Addiction: peering into the editorial review process

article

Interest in nicotine replacement therapy among pregnant smokers.

scientific article published in March 2003

Introducing Addiction Lives

scientific article

Is 'hardcore smoker' a useful term in tobacco control?

scientific article published in January 2018

Is the UK's coalition Government serious about public health?

scientific article published in The Lancet

Is the ten-item Questionnaire of Smoking Urges (QSU-brief) more sensitive to abstinence than shorter craving measures?

scientific article published on 22 December 2009

It is premature to expand access to medicinal cannabis in hopes of solving the US opioid crisis.

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Lessons learned from unsuccessful use of using personal carbon monoxide monitors to remotely assess abstinence in a pragmatic trial of a smartphone stop smoking app – A secondary analysis

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Levels of toxins in oral tobacco products in the UK.

scientific article published in February 2006

Loss of acute nicotine tolerance and severity of cigarette withdrawal

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

Mitigating and learning from the impact of COVID-19 infection on addictive disorders

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

Modelling continuous abstinence rates over time from clinical trials of pharmacological interventions for smoking cessation

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

Modelling the effect of minor orthopaedic day surgery on patient mood at the early post-operative period: a prospective population-based cohort study

scientific article

Moderators of real-world effectiveness of smoking cessation aids: a population study

scientific article published on 06 July 2019

Motivation to reduce alcohol consumption and subsequent attempts at reduction and changes in consumption in increasing and higher-risk drinkers in England: a prospective population survey

scientific article

Multiple substance dependence: implications for treatment of nicotine dependence.

scientific article published in May 2001

Newly available treatments for nicotine addiction. Smokers wanting help with stopping now have effective treatment options

scientific article

Nicotine addiction: a re-analysis of the arguments

scientific article published on January 1, 1992

Nicotine intake in cigarette smokers in England: distribution and demographic correlates

scientific article

Nicotine intake in young smokers: longitudinal study of saliva cotinine concentrations.

scientific article published in February 1989

Ontologies relevant to behaviour change interventions: a method for their development

scientific article published on 18 December 2020

Ontologies relevant to behaviour change interventions: a method for their development

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Ontologies relevant to behaviour change interventions: a method for their development

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Perceived barriers to and benefits of attending a stop smoking course during pregnancy.

scientific article published on 10 August 2005

Population-level predictors of changes in success rates of smoking quit attempts in England: a time series analysis

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Predictors of 3-month abstinence in smokers attending stop-smoking clinics in Malaysia

scientific article

Predictors of engagement, response to follow-up and extent of alcohol reduction in users of a smartphone app (Drink Less) (Preprint)

scientific article published on 14 December 2018

Predictors of engagement, response to follow-up and extent of alcohol reduction in users of a smartphone app (Drink Less) (Preprint)

scholarly article published 4 July 2018

Preferences for scale structure in melodic sequences

scientific article

Prevalence, diagnosis and relation to tobacco dependence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a nationally representative population sample.

scientific article

Preventing tobacco companies from advertising using their packaging could be an important component of comprehensive tobacco control: a commentary on Australia's plain packaging of cigarettes

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

Providing full manuals and intervention descriptions: Addiction policy.

scientific article published in September 2008

Psychology and pharmacology in cigarette withdrawal.

scientific article published on January 1984

Public support in England for raising the price of cigarettes to fund tobacco control activities

scientific article published on 7 June 2010

Publisher Correction: A smartphone app to reduce excessive alcohol consumption: Identifying the effectiveness of intervention components in a factorial randomised control trial.

scientific article

RCT of a client-centred, caseworker-delivered smoking cessation intervention for a socially disadvantaged population

scientific article

ROI in Public Health Policy: Supporting Decision MakingSubhash Pokhrel, Lesley Owen, Kathryn Coyle & Doug Coyle Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 ISBN: 978-3-319-68897-8

article

Randomised controlled trial of ondansetron in smoking cessation

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

Randomized Comparative Trial of Nicotine Polacrilex, a Transdermal Patch, Nasal Spray, and an Inhaler

article

Randomized controlled trial of a social support ('buddy') intervention for smoking cessation

scientific article published on 17 April 2006

Randomized controlled trial of physical activity counseling as an aid to smoking cessation: 12 month follow-up.

scientific article published on 14 April 2007

Rapid reduction versus abrupt quitting for smokers who want to stop soon: a randomised controlled non-inferiority trial

scientific article published on 14 August 2009

Recommendation for the assessment of tobacco craving and withdrawal in smoking cessation trials.

scientific article published in August 2004

Reducing SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the UK: A behavioural science approach to identifying options for increasing adherence to social distancing and shielding vulnerable people

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Reduction in Cortisol After Smoking Cessation Among Users of Nicotine Patches

article

Reflections on Addiction Research Centres and the Nurturing of Creativity.

scientific article published in March 2018

Regular smokers, lifetime very light smokers, and reduced smokers: Comparison of psychosocial and smoking characteristics in women ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

Relapse prevention interventions for smoking cessation

scientific article (published 2009-01-21)

Relapse prevention interventions for smoking cessation

scientific article (publication date: 24 January 2005)

Relative effectiveness of a full versus reduced version of the 'Smoke Free' mobile application for smoking cessation: an exploratory randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 21 September 2018

Relative effectiveness of a full versus reduced version of the ‘Smoke Free’ mobile application for smoking cessation: a randomised controlled trial

Reply to 'Smoke free, but dependent on nicotine' (Karam-Hage 2019)

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Representation of behaviour change interventions and their evaluation: Development of the Upper Level of the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology

scientific article published on 06 January 2021

Representation of behaviour change interventions and their evaluation: Development of the Upper Level of the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Role of formal instruction and informal practice in learning to drive.

scientific article published in April 1996

Self-reported practices, attitudes and levels of training of practitioners in the English NHS Stop Smoking Services.

scientific article published on 11 January 2012

Should smokers be offered assistance with stopping?

scientific article published on 23 August 2010

Significant effects: A personal perspective on how health psychologists can influence policy and practice

scientific article published on May 2017

Smokeless tobacco cessation guidelines for health professionals in England.

scientific article

Smoking cessation guidelines for health professionals: an update. Health Education Authority

scientific article published on December 2000

Smoking intentions and mood preceding lapse after completion of treatment to aid smoking cessation

scientific article published in March 2010

Smoking status of step-parents as a risk factor for smoking in adolescence.

scientific article published in March 2008

Specifying who delivers behaviour change interventions: development of an Intervention Source Ontology

scientific article published in 2021

Stop smoking clinics in Malaysia: characteristics of attendees and predictors of success

scientific article published in April 2011

Strength of urges to smoke as a measure of severity of cigarette dependence: comparison with the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence and its components.

scientific article published on 6 December 2010

Subjective effects of cigarette smoking in adolescents

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

Sustained behavior change is key to preventing and tackling future pandemics

scientific article published in 2021

Symptom attribution and the recognition of psychiatric morbidity

article

Test for assessing tar/nicotine yields

scientific article published on 01 April 1984

The Behaviour Change Technique Ontology: Transforming the Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy v1

scientific article published in 2023

The Role of Personality and Attitudes in Traffic Accident Risk

article

The UK national institute for health and clinical excellence public health guidance on behaviour change: A brief introduction

article

The Use of Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smoking Reduction and Temporary Abstinence: An Interview Study

article

The attitude of maternity staff to, and smoking cessation interventions with, childbearing women in London

article

The behaviour change wheel: a new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions

scientific article

The case for development of an E-cigarette Ontology (E-CigO) to improve quality, efficiency and clarity in the conduct and interpretation of research

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

The clinical significance of "small" effects of smoking cessation treatments.

scientific article published in April 2007

The detection of notes incompatible with scalar structure

article published in 1984

The effect of duration of breath-holding on expired air carbon monoxide concentration in cigarette smokers

scientific article published on 01 January 1984

The future of nicotine replacement in smoking cessation?

scientific article published on April 1994

The impact of changing nicotine replacement therapy licensing laws in the United Kingdom: findings from the International Tobacco Control Four Country Survey.

scientific article published in August 2009

The need for more consistent evidential standards in cannabis policy evaluations

scientific article published on 07 June 2018

The use of heart rate as a marker for tolerance in studies with smokers

The use of videos to inform smokers about different nicotine replacement products.

scientific article published in October 2003

Time course of cigarette withdrawal symptoms during four weeks of treatment with nicotine chewing gum

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

Time for a change: putting the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model to rest.

scientific article published in August 2005

Tobacco use and dementia: evidence from the 1066 dementia population-based surveys in Latin America, China and India.

scientific article published on 9 February 2011

Transition towards a 'non-smoker' identity following smoking cessation: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

scientific article published on 26 May 2011

Triggering anti-smoking advice by GPs: mode of action of an intervention stimulating smoking cessation advice by GPs.

scientific article published on 14 July 2005

Underreporting of the active content of behavioural interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials of smoking cessation interventions

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Understanding and using time series analyses in addiction research

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Updating the evidence on the effectiveness of the alcohol reduction app, Drink Less: using Bayes factors to analyse trial datasets supplemented with extended recruitment

article

Updating the evidence on the effectiveness of the alcohol reduction app, Drink Less: using Bayes factors to analyse trial datasets supplemented with extended recruitment

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

Urinary adrenaline concentrations during 10 days of smoking abstinence

scientific article published on 01 January 1984

Use of nicotine replacement therapy for smoking reduction and during enforced temporary abstinence: a national survey of English smokers.

scientific article published on 18 November 2010

Variability and effectiveness of comparator group interventions in smoking cessation trials: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

What is the purpose of diagnosing addiction or dependence and what does this mean for establishing diagnostic criteria?

scientific article published in May 2011

What lessons can be learned from tobacco control for combating the growing prevalence of obesity?

scientific article published on March 2007

What makes for an effective stop-smoking service?

scientific article published on 27 June 2011

What mediates the effect of confrontational counselling on smoking cessation in smokers with COPD?

scientific article

What role does dopamine really play in tobacco addiction?

scientific article published on 15 May 2018

Why combating tobacco smuggling is a priority

scientific article published on 09 October 2008

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