Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Sydney :
Sydney University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Public and Social Policy.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction
- Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Quitting cigarettes
- Early Australian efforts at promoting quitting
- Australia's first mass-reach quit-smoking campaign
- We must provide help!
- Nascent scepticism starts to foment
- Individuals or populations?
- Early provocations
- Outline of this book
- How do most people quit other addictions?
- Alcohol
- Opiates
- American armed forces heroin users after the Vietnam War
- Cannabis
- Problem gambling
- How we study quitting smoking: a critical look
- Evidence is not the plural of anecdote
- Self-selection bias
- Randomised controlled trials
- Trial exclusion criteria
- Hawthorne, attention and social desirability effects in RCTs
- Trial participant retention strategies
- Trialists are often paid and drugs are free
- Blindness integrity problems
- The pleasures of smoking?
- Can smokers guess if they have been allocated to the placebo arm?
- Competing interest bias
- Positive outcome bias
- "Intention to treat" analysis
- Citation bias
- Real-world observational studies 1: Cross-sectional surveys
- Low response rates in cross-sectional surveys
- Self-selecting, motivated samples vs. whole population randomly selected samples
- Real-world observational studies 2. Longitudinal cohorts
- Relapse
- Recall bias
- Indication bias
- Ways of quitting smoking
- Success rates versus intervention and policy reach
- Quitting unassisted: before and after "evidence-based" methods
- Enter Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) and prescribed medications
- How has mass use of smoking-cessation medication affected cessation at the population level?
- What's the upshot from RCTs and observational studies of NRT?
- Australian data
- Trends in proportion of smokers and ex-smokers who quit unassisted
- Stop smoking medications in low-income nations
- The modest impact of most popular interventions
- Quitlines
- North American quitlines
- Stop-smoking groups and counselling
- The English experience with quit-smoking centres
- Impact of English quit services on smoking prevalence
- Workplace smoking-cessation programs
- GP interventions
- Online quit interventions
- Contingency payments
- Quit and win lotteries
- How much intervention research is ever "upscaled" to become routine in mass-reach settings?
- "Don't try to quit cold turkey"
- The slow death of the hardening hypothesis
- Spontaneous, unplanned quitting vs stages of change progression
- How difficult is it to quit smoking?
- The shunning and denigration of unassisted quitting
- Drivers of the medicalisation of smoking cessation
- The dominance of interventionism
- The medicalisation and commodification of cessation