MMWR Introduction Given that 99% of adult cigarette smokers first start smoking before age 26 years and many smokers transition to regular, daily use during young adulthood, colleges and universities represent an important venue for protecting students, faculty, staff, and guests from secondhand smoke exposure through...
More than twice as many U.S. college and university campuses were smoke free or tobacco free in 2017 as in 2012, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation (ANRF), published today in CDC’s Morbidity...
This article by Brandon N. Martell and colleagues reports that while rates of cigarette smoking have declined since 1964, there still remain disparities in tobacco use among racial/ethnic populations. The article reviews the populations with the highest prevalence of cigarette smoking, including Asian and Hispanic subgroups....
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Sheffer CE1, Webb Hooper M2, Ostroff JS3. Author information 1 Department of Health Behavior; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Buffalo, NY. 2 Case Comprehensive Cancer Center; Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, OH. 3 Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York, NY. Abstract In the United...
In this article, Monica Webb Hooper and colleagues systematically review literature on smoking in minority groups published between 2010 and 2014. The article reviews smoking cessation trials and factors associated with cessation. It discusses the different strategies that effectively facilitate smoking cessation in different racial/ethnic groups, as...
Visit the link below to read about Sophie Davis/CUNY School of Medicine professor Dr. Philip Smith's study on differing treatment options for women smokers. The study, Sex Differences in Smoking Cessation Pharmacotherapy Comparative Efficacy: A Network Meta-analysis, was published earlier this week in the journal "Nicotine &...
TRACC Scholar Daniel Robles and TREND Scholar Alina Shevorykin presented their poster, "Attentional Differences in the Presence of Cigarette Cues Among Smokers, Ex-Smokers, and Non-smokers" at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) conference last week. ...
Trend Scholars from CCNY are currently attending the 2016 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) Conference. Amy Feng, a current fifth-year student in the Sophie Davis program, is presenting her poster on "Differential outcome of tobacco-dependence treatment for smokers with and without a...
Last year (August and November 2015), the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Library partnered with the City College of New York (CCNY) to offer a customized two-part training for CCNY students, as well as staff and other research colleagues collaborating with MSK researchers involved in the Translational...