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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 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 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 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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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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Open AccessTrends in socioeconomic inequalities in smoking prevalence, consumption, initiation, and cessation between 2001 and 2008 in the Netherlands. Findings from a national population survey
Widening of socioeconomic status (SES) inequalities in smoking prevalence has occurred in several Western countries from the mid 1970’s onwards. However, little is known about a widening of SES inequalities in...
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Open AccessSmoking Cessation Quitlines in Europe: Matching Services to Callers' Characteristics
Telephone quitlines offer a wide range of services to callers, including advice and counsel, and information on pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation. But, little is known about what specific quitline services...
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Open AccessIs web interviewing a good alternative to telephone interviewing? Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Netherlands Survey
Web interviewing is becoming increasingly popular worldwide, because it has several advantages over telephone interviewing such as lower costs and shorter fieldwork periods. However, there are also concerns ab...
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Open AccessEffectiveness of a web-based self-help smoking cessation intervention: protocol of a randomised controlled trial
Cigarette smoking is a major risk factor for many chronic and fatal illnesses. Stop** smoking directly reduces those risks. The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a web-based interactiv...
