Background Smoking continues to be a leading cause of preventable chronic disease-related
morbidity and mortality, excess healthcare expenditure, and lost work productivity. …

Objective: To describe beliefs about asthma and asthma treatment in a Hispanic (Dominican-American)
community to determine how alternative belief systems affect compliance with …

Background Several studies of smoking cessation programs in clinical settings have
revealed poorer outcomes for women compared to men, including counselling alone or in …

Background Randomized trials of complex interventions are increasingly including qualitative
components to further understand factors that contribute to their success. In this paper, we …

Systematic social observations have been gaining increasing recognition in neighborhood
and health research as a way of measuring neighborhood attributes hypothesized to affect …

Background The motivational interviewing (MI) approach has been shown to help move
ambivalent smokers toward the decision to quit smoking. There have been several attempts to …

Background: Given the harms associated with tobacco use, continuing the provision of smoking
cessation treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic is critical. The aim of this study was …

Objective Varenicline is the most efficacious approved smoking cessation medication,
making it one of the most cost-effective clinical interventions for reducing tobacco-related …

Background Knowledge brokering is a knowledge translation approach that has been
gaining popularity in Canada although the effectiveness is unknown. This study evaluated the …

Background: Varenicline is a pharmacological intervention for tobacco dependence that is
safe and effective in facilitating smoking cessation. Enhanced adherence to varenicline …