E Cigarettes

Vaping has been all the rage in recent years as more and more people take up the habit, but is it really good for you? The short answer to that question is no. Here are five reasons why vaping isn’t a good idea. …

With so much going on, it’s easy to miss important health news that gets buried under the big headlines. Here are three things to know. — As I noted in my article about the new gun safety legislation, it’s been a rough few weeks when it comes to the news, particularly in terms of health-related news. …

Question: What beliefs among current cigarette smokers influence behavior to make a decision to either continue smoking, switch to a less harmful product such as e-cigarettes, switch to something else, make a quit attempt with or without assistance, or quit completely? Tobacco, but primarily cigarettes, remains the leading cause of…

E-cigarette use has grown dramatically in recent years in the US.1 About 4.4% of adults aged 18 and over currently used e-cigarette in 2019 in the US.2 About 20.8% of adolescents in grades 9–12 used e-cigarette in the past 30 days in 2019 in the US.2 While adolescent use prevention…

Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in the world.1 2 Smoking cessation is the most desirable outcome, but many smokers are unable or unwilling to quit.3 Over half of all smokers attempt to quit each year and only 7% are successful.4 5 Due to the difficulty of…

Evaluation Plan We will evaluate acceptability, adoption, appropriateness, feasibility, fidelity, implementation cost, penetration/reach, and sustainability/sustainment (Smith & Hasan, 2020). Because the AAC treatment model has been tested and earlier stages focused on acceptability and feasibility, we will focus on later stage testing of implementation including adoption, cost, penetration, reach, fidelity…

Review of the Literature Deaths related to tobacco use are largely preventable (Talbot et al., 2019). E-cigarettes have undone years of tobacco control success (Sapru et al., 2020). From 1996 to 2018, the number of adolescents who reported smoking cigarettes in the past month decreased from 28% to 5% (Sapru…

Introduction Over half of all smokers attempt to quit each year and only 7% are successful (Centers for Disease & Prevention, 2011; Smoking Cessation: Fast Facts, 2022). Tobacco, primarily cigarettes, remains the leading cause of preventable disease in the US, claiming 480,000 lives per year and affecting an additional 16…