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Tobacco Use Dependence And Approaches To Treatment, Audrey Darville, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli

Nursing Presentations

Counseling Demonstrates a Dose-Response Effect/Comes in Many Forms

• Brief advice during a “window of opportunity” can increase quit attempts by 40%

• Medication combined with counseling doubles the success rate

• Quitlines: proactive fax to quitline most effective

• Online (becomeanex.org, smokefree.gov, mylastdip.com)

• Cooper Clayton Classes at many local health departments; schedules and provision of medication varies

• I-Phone apps/text to quit

Tailoring NRT to the tobacco user

• Studies show efficacy in smokers and smokeless tobacco users (Ebbert, et al, 2010)

• Combining patch with shorter acting form of NRT has been shown to be safe and effective (Stead, et al, Cochrane Review, 2008; Kozlowski, …

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

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 …