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BMC Public Health
January 2025
Escola de Medicina e Ciências da Vida, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Imaculada Conceição, 1155, Prado Velho, Curitiba, PR, CEP 8021, Brazil.
Objective: To analyze the consumption frequency and factors associated with hookah usage.
Methods: This cross-sectional study involved adults, hookah users, residing in the city of Curitiba. Hookah groups were contacted on social networking sites via an invitation that contained a link to the questionnaire, which comprised 21 questions covering demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, user profiles, use of cigarettes and alcohol, symptoms, and perceptions of the risks of hookah use.
Pneumologie
January 2025
Klinik für Pneumologie, Institut für Tabakentwöhnung und Raucherprävention, Vivantes Netzwerk für Gesundheit GmbH, Berlin, Deutschland.
Counseling and treatment of tobacco and nicotine users include classical behavioral therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy methods. More than half of the quitters after an intervention relapsed into old behavior after 12 months. Discussions with experts have shown that evidence-based interventions are individually supplemented with treatment options without scientific evidence or with inconsistent efficacy.
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January 2025
Department of Kinesiology and Public Health, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA.
Purpose: To examine associations between identified factors to accessing Food and Drug Administration-approved quit medication (FDAQM) and use among a sample of tobacco users.
Design: Cross-sectional, online survey.
Setting: County in Central California.
Importance: For myopia control to be beneficial, it would be important that the benefit of treatment (slowed eye growth) is not lost because of faster than normal growth (rebound) after discontinuing treatment.
Objective: To determine whether there is a loss of treatment effect (rebound) after discontinuing soft multifocal contact lenses in children with myopia.
Design, Setting, And Participants: The Bifocal Lenses in Nearsighted Kids 2 (BLINK2) cohort study involved children with myopia (aged 11-17 years at BLINK2 baseline) who completed the BLINK Study randomized clinical trial.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
January 2025
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Background: Financial incentives (money, vouchers, or self-deposits) can be used to positively reinforce smoking cessation. They may be used as one-off rewards, or in various schedules to reward steps towards sustained smoking abstinence (known as contingency management). They have been used in workplaces, clinics, hospitals, and community settings, and to target particular populations.
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