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Marc C. Willemsen
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Open AccessChallenges and successes in the sustainment of Dutch community-level smoking cessation interventions for residents with a low socioeconomic position
When health promotion interventions are implemented, the gains are often short-lived, as interventions are seldom successfully sustained. The current study explores how and under what conditions community-leve...
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Open AccessThe delivery of Ask-Advise-Connect for smoking cessation in Dutch general practice during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a pre-post implementation study
The Ask-Advise-Connect approach can help primary care providers to increase the number of smokers that attempt to quit smoking and enrol into cessation counselling. The approach has not yet been implemented in...
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Open AccessImplementation of ask-advise-connect for smoking cessation in Dutch general practice during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods evaluation using the CFIR framework
The Ask-Advise-Connect (AAC) approach can help primary care providers to increase the number of people who attempt to quit smoking and enrol into cessation counselling. We implemented AAC in Dutch general prac...
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Open AccessSmokers’ strategies to reduce tobacco spending: self-reported use and differences across subgroups. Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Netherlands Survey
The cost of tobacco is one of the most reported reasons for smoking cessation. Rather than quitting, smokers can use also strategies to reduce tobacco expenditure while continuing smoking, such as smoking less...
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Open AccessAccelerating tobacco control at the national level with the Smoke-free Generation movement in the Netherlands
The Netherlands has moved towards the forefront of tobacco control in Europe, after having implemented important tobacco control measures in 2020 and 2021, which included higher tobacco taxation, plain packagi...
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Open Access“If the social circle is engaged, more pregnant women will successfully quit smoking”: a qualitative study of the experiences of midwives in the Netherlands with smoking cessation care
If smoking is common within a pregnant woman’s social circle, she is more likely to smoke and her chances of succeeding in quitting smoking are reduced. It is therefore important to encourage smoking cessation...
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Open Access“At least someone thinks I’m doing well”: a real-world evaluation of the quit-smoking app StopCoach for lower socio-economic status smokers
Smoking is more prevalent and persistent among lower socio-economic status (SES) compared with higher-SES groups, and contributes greatly to SES-based health inequities. Few interventions exist that effectivel...
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Open AccessThe referral of patients to smoking cessation counselling: perceptions and experiences of healthcare providers in general practice
Few European smokers receive professional counselling when attempting to quit smoking, resulting in suboptimal success rates and poor health outcomes. Healthcare providers in general practice play an important...
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Open AccessAre smokers protected against SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19)? The origins of the myth
A number of recent studies have found low percentages of smokers among COVID-19 patients, causing scientists to conclude that smokers may be protected against SARS-CoV-2 infection. National and international m...
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Open AccessDifferences in smokers’ awareness of the health risks of smoking before and after introducing pictorial tobacco health warnings: findings from the 2012–2017 international tobacco control (ITC) Netherlands surveys
As of May 2016, pictorial health warnings (PHWs) showing the harms of smoking were implemented in the European Union. After one year they had to be fully implemented. We studied changes in awareness of the hea...
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Open AccessPolicies that limit youth access and exposure to tobacco: a scientific neglect of the first stages of the policy process
Policymakers can adopt and implement various supply-side policies to limit youth access and exposure to tobacco, such as increasing the minimum age of sale, limiting the number or type of tobacco outlets, or b...
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Open AccessWho calls the shots in tobacco control policy? Policy monopolies of pro and anti-tobacco interest groups across six European countries
One of the factors influencing variation in tobacco control policies across European countries is the relative policy dominance of pro and anti-tobacco control interest groups. Scholars investigating this powe...
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Open AccessSupport for a point-of-sale cigarette display ban among smokers: findings from the international tobacco control (ITC) Netherlands survey
Displaying tobacco products at point-of-sale (PoS) has become an important marketing strategy for the tobacco industry. This study was designed to (1) examine how support for a PoS cigarette display ban change...
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Open AccessPrevalence of hardcore smoking in the Netherlands between 2001 and 2012: a test of the hardening hypothesis
Hardcore smokers are smokers who have smoked for many years and who do not intend to quit smoking. The “hardening hypothesis” states that light smokers are more likely to quit smoking than heavy smokers (such ...
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Open AccessSmoking cessation behavioural therapy in disadvantaged neighbourhoods: an explorative analysis of recruitment channels
The optimum channel(s) used to recruit smokers living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods for smoking cessation behavioural therapy (SCBT) is unknown. This paper examines the channels through which smokers partici...
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Open AccessWanting to attend isn’t just wanting to quit: why some disadvantaged smokers regularly attend smoking cessation behavioural therapy while others do not: a qualitative study
Attendance of a behavioural support programme facilitates smoking cessation. Disadvantaged smokers have been shown to attend less than their more affluent peers. We need to gain in-depth insight into underlyin...
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‘Ik wed dat ik het kan!’ – Bereik en effect van een televisieprogramma over stoppen met roken bij laag-, middelbaar en hoogopgeleide rokers
Inleiding: Roken komt in Nederland vaker voor onder laag- en middelbaar opgeleiden dan onder hoogopgeleiden. Het entertainment-education televisieprogramma ‘Ik wed dat ik het kan!’ werd speciaal ...
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Decentralisatie van tabaksontmoediging: rookbeleid tussen wal en schip?
Roken is in Nederland de leefstijlfactor die de meeste ziekte en sterfte veroorzaakt. Gemeenten kunnen een belangrijke rol spelen in tabaksontmoediging, maar er is weinig bekend over de stand van zaken van het...
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Open AccessConcern about passive smoking and tobacco control policies in European countries: An ecological study
Because of the magnitude of the global tobacco epidemic, the World Health Organisation developed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), an international legally binding treaty to control tobacco u...
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Een écht rookvrije horeca is ook mogelijk in Nederland
Meeroken vergroot de kans op longkanker, hartaandoeningen en luchtwegaandoeningen. In Ierland is daarom al in 2004 besloten om alle werknemers te beschermen tegen het inademen van tabaksrook. In ...
