Abstract:
OBJECTIVES:We tested the efficacy of a combined pharmacologic and behavioral smoking cessation intervention among women in a state prison in the southern United States. METHODS:The study design was a randomized controlled trial with a 6-month waitlist control group. The intervention was a 10-week group intervention combined with nicotine replacement therapy. Two hundred and fifty participants received the intervention, and 289 were in the control group. Assessments occurred at baseline; end of treatment; 3, 6, and 12 months after treatment; and at weekly sessions for participants in the intervention group. RESULTS:The intervention was efficacious compared with the waitlist control group. Point prevalence quit rates for the intervention group were 18% at end of treatment, 17% at 3-month follow-up, 14% at 6-month follow-up, and 12% at 12-month follow-up, quit rates that are consistent with outcomes from community smoking-cessation interventions. CONCLUSIONS:Female prisoners are interested in smoking cessation interventions and achieved point-prevalence quit rates similar to community samples. Augmenting tobacco control policies in prison with smoking cessation interventions has the potential to address a significant public health need.
journal_name
Am J Public Healthjournal_title
American journal of public healthauthors
Cropsey K,Eldridge G,Weaver M,Villalobos G,Stitzer M,Best Adoi
10.2105/AJPH.2007.128207subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-10-01 00:00:00pages
1894-901issue
10eissn
0090-0036issn
1541-0048pii
AJPH.2007.128207journal_volume
98pub_type
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journal_title:American journal of public health
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.2105/ajph.77.4.498
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更新日期:2008-02-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2009-10-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1992-03-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1999-03-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2007-09-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2015-02-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1979-12-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1980-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2005-09-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1984-04-01 00:00:00