Published in BMC Public Health on May 22, 2008
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Should dental teams be doing more to make adolescents aware of the health risks of water pipe tobacco smoking (shisha)? Br Dent J (2016) 0.75
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Investigation of mainstream smoke aerosol of the argileh water pipe. Food Chem Toxicol (2003) 4.84
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Harm perception of nicotine products in college freshmen. Nicotine Tob Res (2007) 4.25
Patterns of waterpipe use and dependence: implications for intervention development. Pharmacol Biochem Behav (2004) 3.51
Beliefs and attitudes related to narghile (waterpipe) smoking among university students in Syria. Ann Epidemiol (2004) 3.20
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Estimating the beginning of the waterpipe epidemic in Syria. BMC Public Health (2004) 2.85
Waterpipe smoking and nicotine exposure: a review of the current evidence. Nicotine Tob Res (2007) 2.74
Dose effects and predictors of outcome in a randomized trial of transdermal nicotine patches in general practice. Addiction (1995) 2.71
Factors related to frequency of narghile (waterpipe) use: the first insights on tobacco dependence in narghile users. Drug Alcohol Depend (2004) 2.66
Prevalence and characteristics of narghile smoking among university students in Syria. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis (2004) 2.38
Tobacco use by university students, Lebanon, 2001. Addiction (2003) 2.36
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Waterpipe smoking among American military recruits. Prev Med (2006) 1.40
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Weight gain in smokers after quitting cigarettes: meta-analysis. BMJ (2012) 3.09
An updated meta-analysis of nicotine preloading for smoking cessation: investigating mediators of the effect. Psychopharmacology (Berl) (2011) 2.48
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Canadian and English students' beliefs about waterpipe smoking: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health (2009) 2.13
Reduction versus abrupt cessation in smokers who want to quit. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2010) 1.86
Reduction versus abrupt cessation in smokers who want to quit. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2012) 1.84
Association between genetic variants on chromosome 15q25 locus and objective measures of tobacco exposure. J Natl Cancer Inst (2012) 1.83
Placebo-controlled trial of cytisine for smoking cessation. N Engl J Med (2011) 1.76
Financial incentives for smoking cessation in pregnancy: a single-arm intervention study assessing cessation and gaming. Addiction (2015) 1.58
Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2012) 1.52
Cost-effectiveness of pharmacological interventions for smoking cessation: a literature review and a decision analytic analysis. Med Decis Making (2002) 1.41
A new theory of health promoting schools based on human functioning, school organisation and pedagogic practice. Soc Sci Med (2003) 1.33
CHRNA3 rs1051730 genotype and short-term smoking cessation. Nicotine Tob Res (2011) 1.31
Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2009) 1.28
Associations between weight change over 8 years and baseline body mass index in a cohort of continuing and quitting smokers. Addiction (2010) 1.25
Behavioural interventions to prevent weight gain on smoking cessation: a response. Addiction (2009) 1.12
Eating attentively: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of food intake memory and awareness on eating. Am J Clin Nutr (2013) 1.10
Genome-wide association for smoking cessation success: participants in the Patch in Practice trial of nicotine replacement. Pharmacogenomics (2010) 1.10
German medical students lack knowledge of how to treat smoking and problem drinking. Addiction (2012) 1.08
Association of COMT Val108/158Met genotype with smoking cessation. Pharmacogenet Genomics (2008) 1.07
What everyone else is eating: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of informational eating norms on eating behavior. J Acad Nutr Diet (2013) 1.06
Diet or exercise interventions vs combined behavioral weight management programs: a systematic review and meta-analysis of direct comparisons. J Acad Nutr Diet (2014) 1.05
School culture as an influencing factor on youth substance use. J Epidemiol Community Health (2007) 1.01
Does stage-based smoking cessation advice in pregnancy result in long-term quitters? 18-month postpartum follow-up of a randomized controlled trial. Addiction (2005) 1.00
Change in anxiety following successful and unsuccessful attempts at smoking cessation: cohort study. Br J Psychiatry (2013) 1.00
Physical activity as an aid to smoking cessation during pregnancy (LEAP) trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials (2012) 1.00
Weight change among people randomized to minimal intervention control groups in weight loss trials. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2016) 0.99
What happens to women's self-reported cigarette consumption and urinary cotinine levels in pregnancy? Addiction (2003) 0.98
A randomised controlled trial to compare a range of commercial or primary care led weight reduction programmes with a minimal intervention control for weight loss in obesity: the Lighten Up trial. BMC Public Health (2010) 0.97
Promoting smoking cessation through smoking reduction during Ramadan. Addiction (2011) 0.97
Which weight-loss programmes are as effective as Weight Watchers(R)?: non-inferiority analysis. Br J Gen Pract (2014) 0.96
Financial incentives for smoking cessation in pregnancy: protocol for a single arm intervention study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2013) 0.96
Association between use of nicotine replacement therapy for harm reduction and smoking cessation: a prospective study of English smokers. Tob Control (2011) 0.95
Value-added education and smoking uptake in schools: a cohort study. Addiction (2008) 0.95
Development and feasibility testing of a smart phone based attentive eating intervention. BMC Public Health (2013) 0.94
Promoting smoking cessation in Pakistani and Bangladeshi men in the UK: pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of trained community outreach workers. Trials (2011) 0.93
Does school ethos explain the relationship between value-added education and teenage substance use? A cohort study. Soc Sci Med (2012) 0.93
What determines future smoking intentions of 12- to 13-year-old UK African-Caribbean, Indian, Pakistani and white young people? Health Educ Res (2004) 0.93
Factors associated with smoking cessation in early and late pregnancy in the smoking, nicotine, and pregnancy trial: a trial of nicotine replacement therapy. Nicotine Tob Res (2013) 0.92
Preventing the link between SES and high-risk behaviors: "value-added" education, drug use and delinquency in high-risk, urban schools. Prev Sci (2011) 0.91
Effect on adherence to nicotine replacement therapy of informing smokers their dose is determined by their genotype: a randomised controlled trial. PLoS One (2012) 0.91
Systematic review and meta-analysis: influence of smoking cessation on incidence of pneumonia in HIV. BMC Med (2013) 0.91
Is attributing smoking to genetic causes associated with a reduced probability of quit attempt success? A cohort study. Addiction (2007) 0.90
Physical activity as an aid to smoking cessation during pregnancy: two feasibility studies. BMC Public Health (2008) 0.88
Self-help for weight loss in overweight and obese adults: systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Public Health (2015) 0.88
Trial Protocol: Using genotype to tailor prescribing of nicotine replacement therapy: a randomised controlled trial assessing impact of communication upon adherence. BMC Public Health (2010) 0.88
Reducing high calorie snack food in young adults: a role for social norms and health based messages. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act (2013) 0.88
School nurses: policies, working practices, roles and value perceptions. J Adv Nurs (2004) 0.88
Pharmacogenetics of smoking cessation in general practice: results from the patch II and patch in practice trials. Nicotine Tob Res (2011) 0.88
Adherence to and consumption of nicotine replacement therapy and the relationship with abstinence within a smoking cessation trial in primary care. Nicotine Tob Res (2013) 0.87
A proof of concept randomised placebo controlled factorial trial to examine the efficacy of St John's wort for smoking cessation and chromium to prevent weight gain on smoking cessation. Drug Alcohol Depend (2009) 0.87
Is plate clearing a risk factor for obesity? A cross-sectional study of self-reported data in US adults. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2014) 0.87
Interventions to increase adherence to medications for tobacco dependence. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2015) 0.87
Lack of association of DRD2 rs1800497 (Taq1A) polymorphism with smoking cessation in a nicotine replacement therapy randomized trial. Nicotine Tob Res (2009) 0.86
Genetic variation in the serotonin pathway and smoking cessation with nicotine replacement therapy: new data from the Patch in Practice trial and pooled analyses. Drug Alcohol Depend (2008) 0.85
A brief intervention for weight management in primary care: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials (2013) 0.84
Using latent class and latent transition analysis to examine the transtheoretical model staging algorithm and sequential stage transition in adolescent smoking. Subst Use Misuse (2009) 0.84
A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of self-weighing as a weight loss intervention. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act (2014) 0.84
Rapid reduction versus abrupt quitting for smokers who want to stop soon: a randomised controlled non-inferiority trial. Trials (2009) 0.84
A pilot randomised controlled trial of the feasibility of using body scan and isometric exercises for reducing urge to smoke in a smoking cessation clinic. BMC Public Health (2008) 0.83
Response to Rose (2011): nicotine preloading: the importance of a pre-cessation reduction in smoking behavior. Psychopharmacology (Berl) (2011) 0.83
The factor structure and factorial invariance for the decisional balance scale for adolescent smoking. Int J Behav Med (2009) 0.83
A randomised trial of nicotine assisted reduction to stop in pharmacies - the RedPharm study. BMC Public Health (2012) 0.83
Smoking cessation and development of respiratory health in smokers screened with normal spirometry. Respir Med (2010) 0.82
Promoting smoking cessation in Bangladeshi and Pakistani male adults: design of a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of trained community smoking cessation workers. Trials (2009) 0.82
Mediated, moderated and direct effects of country of residence, age, and gender on the cognitive and social determinants of adolescent smoking in Spain and the UK: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health (2009) 0.82
Predicting the life-time benefit of school-based smoking prevention programmes. Addiction (2010) 0.81
Self-help materials for the prevention of smoking relapse: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials (2012) 0.81
Are school physical activity characteristics associated with weight status in primary school children? A multilevel cross-sectional analysis of routine surveillance data. Arch Dis Child (2013) 0.80
Experiences of outreach workers in promoting smoking cessation to Bangladeshi and Pakistani men: longitudinal qualitative evaluation. BMC Public Health (2011) 0.80
Assessing the association between the use of NRT for smoking reduction and attempts to quit smoking using propensity score matching. Drug Alcohol Depend (2012) 0.79
Association between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor single nucleotide polymorphisms and smoking cessation. Nicotine Tob Res (2011) 0.79
Attentional bias retraining in cigarette smokers attempting smoking cessation (ARTS): study protocol for a double blind randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health (2013) 0.79
Benefits of medical treatment of obesity. Lancet (2011) 0.79
Lack of association of OPRM1 genotype and smoking cessation. Nicotine Tob Res (2012) 0.79
Does exercise in adolescence prevent smoking uptake? Addiction (2007) 0.78
Do the Transtheoretical Model processes of change, decisional balance and temptation predict stage movement? Evidence from smoking cessation in adolescents. Addiction (2009) 0.78
Testing the convergent and discriminant validity of the Decisional Balance Scale of the Transtheoretical Model using the Multi-Trait Multi-Method approach. Psychol Addict Behav (2008) 0.78
Weight change over eight years in relation to alcohol consumption in a cohort of continuing smokers and quitters. Nicotine Tob Res (2011) 0.77
Gradual reduction vs abrupt cessation as a smoking cessation strategy in smokers who want to quit. JAMA (2013) 0.77
Provision of commercial weight management programmes. Lancet (2011) 0.77
Is the UK's coalition Government serious about public health? Lancet (2010) 0.77
Trial protocol and preliminary results for a cluster randomised trial of behavioural support versus brief advice for smoking cessation in adolescents. BMC Res Notes (2010) 0.77
Motivational interviewing for smokers. Br J Gen Pract (2007) 0.76
A randomised placebo-controlled trial of oral hydrocortisone for treating tobacco withdrawal symptoms. Psychopharmacology (Berl) (2011) 0.76
Does smoking influence survival in cancer patients through effects on respiratory and vascular disease? Eur J Cancer Prev (2006) 0.76
Nicotine patch preloading for smoking cessation (the preloading trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials (2014) 0.75
Nicotine replacement therapy. Authors respond to criticism that treatment is ineffective. BMJ (2009) 0.75
Slimming World in Stop Smoking Services (SWISSS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials (2013) 0.75
The place of varenicline in smoking cessation treatment. Thorax (2008) 0.75
New York City offensive against tobacco. Lancet (2005) 0.75
Smoking reduction interventions for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2019) 0.75
Is there a relationship between where students sit in lectures and their performance in examinations? Med Educ (2007) 0.75
Future orientation and smoking cessation: secondary analysis of data from a smoking cessation trial. Addiction (2014) 0.75
A preliminary investigation into factors influencing limiting long-standing illness among UK university graduates: a retrospective cohort study. Health (London) (2006) 0.75