Public Health Interventions - Addiction Flashcards

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What did Cochrane find about doctors advice?

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After 12 months after consulting their doctors 0.3% had quit
If they were also given a leaflet about quitting 5.1% did = may increase self efficacy and perceived behavioural control

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What did Ogden find after looking at Cochrans results?

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That is all GPs advised their clients to quit this would result in half a million ex-smokers in the UK every year

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What did evidence find about restricting and banning advertisement?

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Compared cigarette consumption before and after a ban was brought on advertising in Finland and found a reduction in sales

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What is the current legislation in the UK on cigarette advertisement?

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There is a ban on display in shops and a call for plain packaging

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How can legislation increase the cost of smoking?

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By increasing taxation

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How can reducing harmful components reducing smoking?

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The idea is that smokers would gradually wean off nicotine and find it easier to quit cigarettes = negative reinforcement
BUT concern that smokers may just increase the amount they smoke

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What did Benowitz find about reducing harmful components?

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Very small study where smokers were given cigarettes which gradually had less and less nicotine in them:
- none of the smokers increased the amount of cigarettes they smokes = nicotine must involve psychological factors which cause aggression

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How may the ban on smoking in public places have reduced the addiction?

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  • Seen as less of a social norm
  • Smokers may be seen as more of a separate social group causing people to conform to their non-smoking group (normative)
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How may the ban on smoking in public places increased smoking addiction?

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  • Smokers may share a common attitude towards the ban which increases their habit (normative + informational conformity)
  • Gives smokers a sense of identity
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What are informational/awareness campaigns?

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Messages that may be general or targeted, and it is important at the outset to be clear about objectives, audiences and message.

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What did Sung and Keeler do?

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Examined the effects of taxation vs an anti-smoking media campaign on cigarette consumption in California

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What did Sung and Keeler find?

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  • Sales of cigarettes reduced by 819 million packs through 1990-92 due to 25% tax increase
  • the anti-smoking media campaign reduced sales by 232 million packs
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What does Sung and Keeler’s study show?

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  • Both taxation and anti-smoking media campaigns are effective means of reducing cigarette consumption
  • The strength of those effects is influenced by the magnitude of these
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What is doctors advice?

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Often give advice about quitting smoking:

- SLT: may be seen as authority figures so more likely to copy the behaviour they tell us to do

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