Background: Many placebo-controlled trials have demonstrated the efficacy of individual
pharmacotherapies approved for smoking cessation. However, few direct or indirect …

Background: The natural course of onset of cigarette use has been conceptualized as
progressing sequentially through 5 stages (preparation, trying, irregular use, regular use, nicotine-…

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to examine smoking cessation rates among
smokers with AMI to determine whether bupropion, started in-hospital, is safe and can improve …

Objective: To synthesise estimates of the prevalence of cessation attempts among adolescent
smokers generally, and according to age and level of cigarette consumption. Data sources…

Aims Widely varying estimates of treatment effects have been reported in randomized controlled
trials (RCTs) investigating the efficacy of behavioural interventions for smoking cessation…

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major respiratory illness in Canada that
is both preventable and treatable. Our understanding of the pathophysiology of this complex …

BACKGROUND: To extend previous observations that secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) is
associated with nicotine markers in children, we investigated if SHS exposure is associated …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major respiratory illness in Canada that
is preventable and treatable but unfortunately remains underdiagnosed. The purpose of the …

Objective Smoking cessation counseling practices may differ between physicians who smoke
and those who have quit or never smoked. Method Of 917 general practitioners (GP) in …

Objectives. We sought to document the sequence and timing of milestones in the process of
smoking cessation by prospectively studied cessation milestones among novice adolescent …