Background Telephone services can provide information and support for smokers.
Counselling may be provided proactively or offered reactively to callers to smoking …

Background The standard way most people are advised to stop smoking is by quitting
abruptly on a designated quit day. However, many people who smoke have tried to quit …

Psychology researchers are often interested in mechanisms underlying how randomized
interventions affect outcomes such as substance use and mental health. Mediation analysis …

Objective: Assess the feasibility and acceptability of a culturally-and linguistically-adapted
smoking cessation text messaging intervention for Latino smokers. Methods: Using a …

Objective In oncology, research remains unclear as to whether physician empathy is
associated with patient outcomes. Our goal was to answer this question and explore …

Introduction Latinos, the largest minority group in the US, experience tobacco-related
disparities, including limited access to cessation resources. Evidence supports the efficacy …

Background Conversational chatbots are an emerging digital intervention for smoking
cessation. No studies have reported on the entire development process of a cessation …

Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the replacement of many face-to-face
healthcare consultations with telephone consultations. Little is known about the extent to …

Objective: To determine if Motivational Interviewing (MI) versus health education (HE)
elicited different types of client language and whether these differences were associated …

Objective: A randomized controlled trial of quitline-like phone counseling (QL) versus
telemedicine integrated into primary care (ITM) compared the effectiveness of these …