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The Relationship Between Secondhand Tobacco Smoke (Shs) Exposure And Smoking Behaviours: Designing A Program Of Research, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli

Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli

Overview

- Background and Significance

- Study 1: Literature Review Study

- Study 2: SHS Exposure, Nicotine Dependence, and Smoking Cessation

- Study 3: Hair Nicotine as a Measure of SHS Exposure

- Study 4: Effects of Nicotine Exposure from SHS Among Bar and Restaurant Workers

- Study 5: Nicotine Dependence Symptoms among Young Never-Smokers Exposed to SHS

- Study 6: An Examination of the Relationship between Adolescents’ Initial Smoking Experience and their Exposure to Peer and Family Member Smoking

Conclusions and Future Directions

Smoking And Secondhand Tobacco Smoke Exposure: Prevalence, Prevention, Protection, And Treatment, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli

Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli

Prevalence and Disease Burden of Smoking

Strategies for Prevention and Protection

Approaches to Tobacco Dependence Treatment

Example of a Smoking Cessation Program

Expecting To Quit: A Best-Practices Review Of Smoking Cessation Interventions For Pregnant And Postpartum Girls And Women, Lorraine Greaves, Nancy Poole, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Natalie Hemsing, Annie Qu, Lauren Bialystok, Renée O’Leary

Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli

This report examines interventions designed to reduce or eliminate smoking during pregnancy. It considers these interventions using a “better practices” methodology designed by Moyer, Cameron, Garcia, and Maule (2002, p. 124) for intervention studies published prior to 2003, and a systematic review methodology from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) (2006) in the UK for those studies published after 2003. We contextualize the results of these analyses in the wider literature on women’s health, women-centred care, and women’s tobacco use to better interpret them. These results build on those in the first edition of Expecting to Quit …

Trauma, Psychiatric Disorders, Substance Use, And Smoking Among Women, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Nancy Poole, Natalie Hemsing, Karin O'Leary

Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli

Despite decreasing smoking rates among women in the general population, there remain subgroups of women characterized by high nicotine dependence, who remain less able to quit.

One subgroup of women who continue to smoke at rates higher than the general population are those who: have past experiences of trauma, are vulnerable to psychiatric disorders and have substance use problems/addictions.

However, the prevalence of the co-occurrence of trauma, psychiatric disorders, and substance use problems/ addictions, with smoking among women has not previously been synthesized.

The purpose of this study is to conduct a comprehensive review to identify the prevalence of smoking …