Physician-based smoking intervention: a rededication to a five-step strategy to smoking research

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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has developed a research approach to cancer prevention and control, which addresses the need for recommitment to basic research regarding smoking behavior and nicotine dependency. Such rededication is important in putting in place physician-based smoking interventions amid the rapidly changing health services and social milieu. The NCI's five-phase research framework consists of hypothesis development, methods development, randomized controlled intervention trials, defined population studies, and demonstration and implementation.

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Smokers can learn to influence their urge to smoke

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Heavy smokers took part in a within-subject study where the link between smoking-related cues and nicotine intake was conditional on neutral stimuli. The results showed that the predictive value of a cue strongly determines its ability to generate craving. Participants learned a modified predictive value of smoking cues.

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The natural history of college smoking: trajectories of daily smoking during the freshman year

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The smoking habits of first year college students is analyzed.

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