Background Healthcare professionals frequently advise people to improve their health by
stopping smoking. Such advice may be brief, or part of more intensive interventions …

Background The transtheoretical model is the most widely known of several stage‐based
theories of behaviour. It proposes that smokers move through a discrete series of …

Researchers, historians, and philosophers of science have debated the nature of scientific
research in education for more than 100 years. Recent enthusiasm for" evidence-based" …

Objective To evaluate the impact of telling patients their estimated spirometric lung age as
an incentive to quit smoking. Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting Five general …

The aim of this double-blind single center study (the COPE study) was to investigate the
effect of discontinuation of the inhaled corticosteroid fluticasone propionate (FP) on …

Objective To determine the effectiveness of health promotion interventions based on
theoretical models of behavioral change to modify the main lifestyle factors (physical activity …

BACKGROUND: To systematically review the literature concerning the effect of stages-of-
change–based interventions in primary care on smoking, physical activity, and dietary …

BACKGROUND: This report updates 2001 estimates of disease burden prevented and cost
effectiveness of tobacco-use screening and brief intervention relative to that of other clinical …

OBJECTIVES: A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate evidence-
based strategies for increasing the delivery of smoking cessation treatments in primary care …

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of five face-to-face smoking cessation
interventions (ie, minimal counseling by a general practitioner (GP) with, or without nicotine …