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Quitline — is a telephone helpline offering treatment for addiction and behavior change. Presently most quitlines treat tobacco or alcohol addiction. Quitlines are treatment centres that offer advanced treatment and should not be confused with call… … Wikipedia
Smoking cessation — [ [http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/index.html World Health Organization, Tobacco Free Initiative] ] DescriptionResearch in Western countries has found that approximately 3 5% of quit attempts succeed using willpower alone (Hughes et al,… … Wikipedia
Tobacco packaging warning messages — Smoking warning on the back of a cigarette pack, in Australia Tobacco packaging warning messages are health warning messages that appear on the packaging of cigarettes and other tobacco products. They have been implemented in an effort to enhance … Wikipedia
Asgeir Helgason — Ásgeir R. Helgason (born 1957) is an Icelandic scientist working at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm Centre of Public Health in Sweden. From 2002 he has worked as an associate professor in psychology at the Departments of Oncology Pathology… … Wikipedia
Zhu S-H — Dr. Shu Hong Zhu is a Chinese scientist living in the United States. He is best known for his pioneer research on the effectiveness of telephone based treatment for tobacco cessation (quitline).References*Zhu S H, Anderson CM, Tedeschi GJ, et al … Wikipedia
Stockholm Centre of Public Health — is run by the health authorities in Stockholm, Sweden. Its purpose is to be a centre for the development of evidence based action plans, prevention and treatment for a wide range of public health problems including tobacco, AIDS, obesity, passive … Wikipedia
mHealth — Medical nurse uses a mobile phone in Accra, Ghana mHealth (also written as m health or mobile health) is a term used for the practice of medicine and public health, supported by mobile devices. The term is most commonly used in reference to using … Wikipedia
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Proactive — The word proactive sometimes also written pro active was used by the Austrian existential neuropsychiatrist [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00E1DF1530F937A3575AC0A961958260 sec= spon= pagewanted=2 Dr. Viktor Emil Frankl] , in… … Wikipedia
