Smoking
Haug S et al, BMC Public Health, 12(1)
BACKGROUND:
Particularly in groups of adolescents with lower educational level the smoking prevalence is still high and constitutes a serious public health problem. There is limited evidence of effective smoking cessation interventions in this group. Individualised text messaging (SMS) based interventions are promising to support smoking cessation and could be provided to adolescents irrespective of their motivation to quit. The aim of the current paper is to outline the study protocol of a trial testing the efficacy of an SMS based intervention for smoking cessation in apprentices.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Adolescents, Effectiveness, mHealth, Smoking, SMS
Luke Gale, CMIO
“A smoking cessation program called txt2stop, a text messaging service that sends participants motivational messages, delivered positive, short-term results for smoking cessation rates at six months, according to the txt2stop study from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and published online June 30 in The Lancet.
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17 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): mHealth, Smoking, SMS
Sarika Bansal, Forbes
“Imagine you are trying to quit smoking. In the process, you receive a text message saying, “This is it! – QUIT DAY, throw away all your fags [cigarettes]. TODAY is the start of being QUIT forever, you can do it!” Would that text message increase the likelihood of you quitting?
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8 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Chronic Diseases, mHealth, Smoking, SMS
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Online community support holds great promise for creating healthy habits, according to a new study of a mobile health application geared toward helping people quit smoking.
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26 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): mHealth, Smoking, Social Media
Chris Gullo, mobihealthnews
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week two new SMS smoking cessation programs, QuitNowTXT and SmokeFreeTXT, as part of their Text4Health initiative.
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19 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Lifestyle, mHealth, Smoking, SMS
Bennett DA, Emberson JR. The Lancet, 378(9785)
Despite substantial reductions in smoking rates in the UK over the past few decades, smoking remains one of the biggest avoidable causes of morbidity and mortality. In 2002, smoking was estimated to be directly responsible for 12% of disability-adjusted life years lost in the UK (15·4% in men, 8·5% in women), while in 2006—07 it was estimated to cost the National Health Service £3·3 billion.
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10 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): mHealth, Smoking, SMS
Yahoo! Health
“Smokers are twice as likely to quit when they get text messages urging them to stick to their goal of being smoke free compared with those who receive texts with no motivational messages, a British study has found.
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30 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): mHealth, Smoking, SMS
Free C et al, The Lancet, 2011
Background
Smoking cessation programmes delivered via mobile phone text messaging show increases in self-reported quitting in the short term. We assessed the effect of an automated smoking cessation programme delivered via mobile phone text messaging on continuous abstinence, which was biochemically verified at 6 months.
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30 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: UK | Tag(s): mHealth, Smoking, SMS
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“From the mobile health company that developed Text4Baby, arguably the best known mobile health service (and certainly the one with the most partners), comes Text2Quit, a smoking cessation program. Voxiva says the service makes use of text messages, emails and the web along with evidence-based best practices from the Surgeon General and peer-reviewed studies.
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9 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Lifestyle, mHealth, Smoking, SMS
Michael, Mobile Marketing Watch
“Forget patches, gum, and doctors. Kicking the addition to smoking may be as easy as picking up your mobile phone.
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9 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Lifestyle, mHealth, Smoking, SMS
Abroms LC et al, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 40(3)
Background
With the proliferation of smartphones such as the iPhone, mobile phones are being used in novel ways to promote smoking cessation.
Purpose
This study set out to examine the content of the 47 iPhone applications (apps) for smoking cessation that were distributed through the online iTunes store, as of June 24, 2009.
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14 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adherence, mHealth, smartphone, Smoking
Brian Dolan, mobihealthnews
“Two small studies from researchers at the University of Oregon (UO) and UCLA have shown that text messaging (SMS) is an effective and low-cost way to measure and intervene in urges people have during smoking cessation programs. The two studies used the same group of 27 subjects, who were heavy smokers recruited from the American Lung Association’s Freedom From Smoking program in Los Angeles.
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10 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Behaviour, Lifestyle, mHealth, Smoking, SMS
The Medical News
“A computerized bilingual decision aid – placed in safety-net clinics and health fairs – can prompt Hispanic and other smokers to set a quit date and choose effective treatments.
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12 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Decision Support, Kiosk, Smoking
Cupertino AP et al, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 21(2)
Introduction.
People with poor access to medical care are more likely to smoke but are less likely to receive nicotine dependence treatment.
Objective.
To assess preliminary outcomes of a computer-based, bilingual smoking cessation decision-aid to facilitate utilization of resources.
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12 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Decision Support, Kiosk, Smoking
The Telegraph
“The charity WeQuit launched the programme with the social network to help people and their friends challenge each other to give up nicotine as well as create rewards for success and forfeits for failure.
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10 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): facebook, Lifestyle, Smoking, Social Media
Scoop Health
“Young entrepreneur from the Netherlands introduced an iPhone application to support smokers during an attempt to quit named My Stop Buddy.
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4 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | Tag(s): Applications, Industry, Lifestyle, mHealth, smartphone, Smoking
Reuters
“The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is leading a $2.9 million National Cancer Institute project to increase demand for evidence-based, Internet-based smoking cessation treatment for young adults aged 18 to 24 years.
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2 July 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adolescents, Internet, Lifestyle, Smoking
ZAMP Bionews
“Many young smokers want to quit but don’t know what methods work.
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1 July 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adolescents, Internet, Lifestyle, Smoking
PR.com
“Researchers implemented an enhancement in the electronic health record to improve rates of smoking cessation.
Although the dangers of smoking are well known, tobacco still remains the number one cause of preventable death in the United States.
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20 May 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Smoking
