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Prevention strategies and treatments (Prevention Strategies (WHO MPOWER…
Prevention strategies and treatments
Prevention Strategies
WHO MPOWER
Overview
Protect people from tobacco smoke
Offer help to quit tobacco
Warn about the danger of tobacco use
Enforce bans on tobacco ads, promos, sponsorships
Raise taxes on tobacco
Monitor tobacco use and prevention policies
Hanewinkel and Wiborg (2002)
Aim
investigate effectiveness of school based campaign, germany
Procedure
longitudinal study
Participants german students (avg. age 13)
classes either smoke free or not
could win prizes
control not in competition
smoking status assessed after
Results
experimental students had lower prevalence of smoking than control
Conclusion
competition delayed onset of smoking
maximize diff between them and outgroup (smokers)
Eval
social desirability effect
bias - teens, one culture
can't stop smokers, just prevented potential start
Lemstra et. al (08) and Gorini (07)
ban smoking in public decreased smoking prevalence in Italy and canada
Treatment
Nicotine Replacement Therapy
Overview
low levels of nicotine used to relieve withdrawal symptoms, control cravings
products such as gum and patches
Study: Bullen et. al 2010
Aim
Investigate short term effectiveness of e-cigs on smoke cravings & withdrawal in comparison to inhalators
Procedure
single blind controlled randomized experiment
Participants: 40 smokers, smoked >10 cigs/day, not smoked overnight
given either cigs, nicotine inhaler or e-cigs (0 or 16 mg nicotine)
Results
e-cigs prod. same decline in desire to smoke as nico. inhaler
ecigs = fewer side effects
even 0 mg suppressed the desire to smoke
Conclusion
Shows simulation of smoking behavior enough to reduce craving
Eval
Bias of self report
Reductionist, simplifies smoking
Ethnocentric, focusing on Western Culture only
Drug Treatment
Zyban
relieve withdrawal symptoms
block effects of nicotine
Jorenby et. al (99)
Aim
investigate effectiveness of nicotine patches and Zyban
Procedure
double blind
244 nicotine patch
245 zyban and nicotine patch
160 placebo
9 weeks, quit after 8 days
Results
15.6 % Placebo no smoke after 1 year
30.3% nicotine patch and 30.3% combined