BACKGROUND: Cigarette smoking is a leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality worldwide. Women who smoke face greater health risks than men, including higher rates of cardiovascular disease and more pronounced declines in lung function. Des...
BACKGROUND: Smoking is a leading cause of preventable death, and people with HIV have higher smoking rates and are more likely to experience smoking-related health issues. The Sense2Quit study introduces innovative advancements in smoking cessation t...
BACKGROUND: Individuals who are socioeconomically disadvantaged have high smoking rates and face barriers to participating in smoking cessation interventions. Computer-tailored health communication, which is focused on finding the most relevant messa...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and start a discussion on the potential usefulness of applying Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven natural language processing technology such as the ChatGPT in tobacco control efforts, specifically vaping cessation.
Depression is prevalent among individuals who smoke cigarettes and increases risk for relapse. A previous clinical trial suggests that Goal2Quit, a behavioral activation-based smoking cessation mobile app, effectively increases smoking abstinence an...
BACKGROUND: Persistent smoking after cancer diagnosis is associated with increased overall mortality (OM) and cancer mortality (CM). According to the 2020 Surgeon General's report, smoking cessation may reduce CM but supporting evidence is not wide. ...
BACKGROUND: Just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI) aim to prevent smoking lapse using tailored support delivered via mobile technology in the moments when it is most needed. Effective smoking cessation JITAI rely on the development of accurate d...
Nicotine consumption is considered a major health problem, where many of those who wish to quit smoking relapse. The problem is that overtime smoking as behaviour is changing into a habit, in which it is connected to internal (e.g., nicotine level, c...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 3, 2019
BACKGROUND: The wide scale and severity of consequences of tobacco use, benefits derived from cessation, low rates of intervention by healthcare professionals, and new opportunities stemming from novel communications technologies are the main factors...
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