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Safety of e-cigarettes and nicotine patches as stop-smoking aids in pregnancy: Secondary analysis of the Pregnancy Trial of E-cigarettes and Patches (PREP) randomized controlled trial (2024)
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Pesola, F., Smith, K. M., Phillips‐Waller, A., Przulj, D., Griffiths, C., Walton, R., …Hajek, P. (2024). Safety of e-cigarettes and nicotine patches as stop-smoking aids in pregnancy: Secondary analysis of the Pregnancy Trial of E-cigarettes and Patches (PREP) randomized controlled trial. Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16422

Aims: The aim of this study was to examine the safety of e-cigarettes (EC) and nicotine patches (NRT) when used to help pregnant smokers quit. Design: A recent trial of EC versus NRT reported safety outcomes in the randomized arms. We conducted a fur... Read More about Safety of e-cigarettes and nicotine patches as stop-smoking aids in pregnancy: Secondary analysis of the Pregnancy Trial of E-cigarettes and Patches (PREP) randomized controlled trial.

Safety of e-cigarettes and nicotine patches as stop-smoking aids in pregnancy: Secondary analysis of the Pregnancy Trial of E-cigarettes and Patches (PREP) randomised controlled trial (2024)
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Pesola, F., Smith, K. M., Phillips-Waller, A., Przulj, D., Griffiths, C., Walton, R., …Hajek, P. (2024). Safety of e-cigarettes and nicotine patches as stop-smoking aids in pregnancy: Secondary analysis of the Pregnancy Trial of E-cigarettes and Patches (PREP) randomised controlled trial. Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16422

Aims To examine safety of e-cigarettes (EC) and nicotine patches (NRT) when used to help pregnant smokers quit. Design A recent trial of EC versus NRT reported safety outcomes in the randomised arms. We conducted a further analysis based... Read More about Safety of e-cigarettes and nicotine patches as stop-smoking aids in pregnancy: Secondary analysis of the Pregnancy Trial of E-cigarettes and Patches (PREP) randomised controlled trial.

Promoting and maintaining changes in smoking behaviour for patients following discharge from a smokefree mental health inpatient stay: Development of a complex intervention using the Behaviour Change Wheel. (2022)
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Shoesmith, E., Huddlestone, L., Pervin, J., Shahab, L., Coventry, P., Coleman, T., …Ratschen, E. (2023). Promoting and maintaining changes in smoking behaviour for patients following discharge from a smokefree mental health inpatient stay: Development of a complex intervention using the Behaviour Change Wheel. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 25(4), 729-737. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntac242

Evidence suggests that smokers can successfully quit, remain abstinent or reduce smoking during a smokefree mental health inpatient stay, provided behavioural/pharmacological support are offered. However, few evidence-based strategies to prevent the... Read More about Promoting and maintaining changes in smoking behaviour for patients following discharge from a smokefree mental health inpatient stay: Development of a complex intervention using the Behaviour Change Wheel..

Investigating the cost-effectiveness of three cessation interventions on a national scale using the Economics of Smoking in Pregnancy (ESIP) decision analytical model (2022)
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Jones, M., Smith, M., Lewis, S., Parrott, S., & Coleman, T. (2022). Investigating the cost-effectiveness of three cessation interventions on a national scale using the Economics of Smoking in Pregnancy (ESIP) decision analytical model. Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15968

Aim: To measure the cost-effectiveness of adding text message (TMB), exercise (EB) and abstinent-contingent financial incentive-based (CFIB) stop smoking interventions to standard smoking cessation support for pregnant women in England. Design: Model... Read More about Investigating the cost-effectiveness of three cessation interventions on a national scale using the Economics of Smoking in Pregnancy (ESIP) decision analytical model.

Electronic cigarettes versus nicotine patches for smoking cessation in pregnancy: a randomized controlled trial (2022)
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Hajek, P., Przulj, D., Pesola, F., Griffiths, C., Walton, R., McRobbie, H., …Myers Smith, K. (2022). Electronic cigarettes versus nicotine patches for smoking cessation in pregnancy: a randomized controlled trial. Nature Medicine, 28(5), 958-964. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-01808-0

Nicotine replacement therapy, in the form of nicotine patches, is commonly offered to pregnant women who smoke to help them to stop smoking, but this approach has limited efficacy in this population. Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are also used... Read More about Electronic cigarettes versus nicotine patches for smoking cessation in pregnancy: a randomized controlled trial.

Are E-cigarettes associated with postpartum return to smoking? Secondary analyses of a UK pregnancy longitudinal cohort (2022)
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Orton, S., Taylor, L., Laing, L., Lewis, S., Ussher, M., Coleman, T., & Cooper, S. (2022). Are E-cigarettes associated with postpartum return to smoking? Secondary analyses of a UK pregnancy longitudinal cohort. BMJ Open, 12(4), Article e061028. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061028

Objectives: Postpartum return to smoking (PPRS) is an important public health problem. E-cigarette (EC) use has increased in recent years, and in a contemporary UK pregnancy cohort, we investigated factors, including ECs use, associated with PPRS.... Read More about Are E-cigarettes associated with postpartum return to smoking? Secondary analyses of a UK pregnancy longitudinal cohort.

The development and acceptability testing of an app-based smart survey system to record smoking behaviour, use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and e-cigarettes (2022)
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Huang, Y., Emery, J., Naughton, F., Cooper, S., McDaid, L., Dickinson, A., …Coleman, T. (2022). The development and acceptability testing of an app-based smart survey system to record smoking behaviour, use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and e-cigarettes. BMC Research Notes, 15(1), Article 100. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-05983-8

Objective: Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) helps people stop smoking. Monitoring treatment adherence is important as poor adherence to NRT limits its effectiveness. As e-cigarettes contain nicotine, their use (‘vaping’) is likely to affect both NR... Read More about The development and acceptability testing of an app-based smart survey system to record smoking behaviour, use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and e-cigarettes.

Smoking Cessation Support for Pregnant Women Provided by English Stop Smoking Services and National Health Service Trusts: A Survey (2022)
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Thomson, R., Cooper, S., Waldron, J., Mamuzo, E., McDaid, L., Emery, J., …Coleman, T. (2022). Smoking Cessation Support for Pregnant Women Provided by English Stop Smoking Services and National Health Service Trusts: A Survey. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(3), Article 1634. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19031634

Reducing smoking rates in pregnancy continues to be a public health priority. Given a recent UK government policy change resulting in The National Health Service (NHS) making a significant new contribution to cessation support in pregnancy in England... Read More about Smoking Cessation Support for Pregnant Women Provided by English Stop Smoking Services and National Health Service Trusts: A Survey.

The old and familiar meets the new and unknown: patient and clinician perceptions on e-cigarettes for smoking reduction in UK general practice, a qualitative interview study (2021)
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Albury, C., Barnes, R., Ferrey, A., Coleman, T., Gilbert, H., Naughton, F., …MaSC study investigators. (2022). The old and familiar meets the new and unknown: patient and clinician perceptions on e-cigarettes for smoking reduction in UK general practice, a qualitative interview study. Addiction, 117(5), 1427-1437. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15760

Background and Aims: Clinicians could promote e-cigarettes for harm reduction to people who smoke but cannot stop, but many clinicians feel uneasy doing so. In a randomized controlled trial (RCT), primary care clinicians offered free e-cigarettes and... Read More about The old and familiar meets the new and unknown: patient and clinician perceptions on e-cigarettes for smoking reduction in UK general practice, a qualitative interview study.

Barriers and Facilitators to Staying Smoke-Free after Having a Baby, a Qualitative Study: Women’s Views on Support Needed to Prevent Returning to Smoking Postpartum (2021)
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Phillips, L., Campbell, K. A., Coleman, T., Ussher, M., Cooper, S., Lewis, S., & Orton, S. (2021). Barriers and Facilitators to Staying Smoke-Free after Having a Baby, a Qualitative Study: Women’s Views on Support Needed to Prevent Returning to Smoking Postpartum. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(21), Article 11358. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111358

Background: Postpartum return to smoking (PPRS) is a common and important public health problem. Interventions to prevent PPRS have not been shown to be effective. We aimed to qualitatively explore the barriers and facilitators to staying smoke-free... Read More about Barriers and Facilitators to Staying Smoke-Free after Having a Baby, a Qualitative Study: Women’s Views on Support Needed to Prevent Returning to Smoking Postpartum.

Effectiveness of offering tailored text message, self‐help smoking cessation support to pregnant women who want information on stopping smoking: MiQuit3 randomised controlled trial (RCT) and meta‐analysis (2021)
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Coleman, T., Clark, M., Welch, C., Whitemore, R., Leonardi‐Bee, J., Cooper, S., …Naughton, F. (2022). Effectiveness of offering tailored text message, self‐help smoking cessation support to pregnant women who want information on stopping smoking: MiQuit3 randomised controlled trial (RCT) and meta‐analysis. Addiction, 117(4), 1079-1094. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15715

Aims: To test efficacy of “MiQuit’, a tailored, self-help, text message stop smoking programme for pregnancy, as an adjunct to usual care (UC) for smoking cessation in pregnancy. Design: Multicentre, open, two-arm, parallel-group, superiority rand... Read More about Effectiveness of offering tailored text message, self‐help smoking cessation support to pregnant women who want information on stopping smoking: MiQuit3 randomised controlled trial (RCT) and meta‐analysis.

Comparison of saliva cotinine and exhaled carbon monoxide concentrations when smoking and after being offered dual nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy (2021)
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Slaich, B., Claire, R., Emery, J., Lewis, S., Cooper, S., Thomson, R., …Coleman, T. (2022). Comparison of saliva cotinine and exhaled carbon monoxide concentrations when smoking and after being offered dual nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy. Addiction, 117(3), 751-759. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15671

Background and Aims Although English Stop Smoking Services routinely offer dual nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) to help pregnant women quit smoking, little is known about how nicotine and tobacco smoke exposures following this compares with that... Read More about Comparison of saliva cotinine and exhaled carbon monoxide concentrations when smoking and after being offered dual nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy.

Financial Incentives for Preventing Postpartum return to Smoking (FIPPS): study protocol for a three-arm randomised controlled trial (2021)
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Ussher, M., Best, C., Lewis, S., McKell, J., Coleman, T., Cooper, S., …Bauld, L. (2021). Financial Incentives for Preventing Postpartum return to Smoking (FIPPS): study protocol for a three-arm randomised controlled trial. Trials, 22(1), Article 512. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05480-6

Background: Financial incentives are an effective way of helping women to stop smoking during pregnancy. Unfortunately, most women who stop smoking at this time return to smoking within 12 months of the infant’s birth. There is no evidence for interv... Read More about Financial Incentives for Preventing Postpartum return to Smoking (FIPPS): study protocol for a three-arm randomised controlled trial.

Smoking and vaping patterns during pregnancy and the postpartum: a longitudinal UK cohort survey (2021)
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Bowker, K., Lewis, S., Ussher, M., Naughton, F., Phillips, L., Coleman, T., …Cooper, S. (2021). Smoking and vaping patterns during pregnancy and the postpartum: a longitudinal UK cohort survey. Addictive Behaviors, 123, Article 107050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107050

Introduction: There is limited information about longitudinal patterns of vaping during pregnancy and the postpartum. We describe the prevalence, frequency, and reasons for vaping throughout pregnancy and postpartum. We also describe temporal pattern... Read More about Smoking and vaping patterns during pregnancy and the postpartum: a longitudinal UK cohort survey.

Agreement and Disparities between Women and Stop-Smoking Specialists about How to Promote Adherence to Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Pregnancy (2021)
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McDaid, L., Thomson, R., Emery, J., Coleman, T., Cooper, S., Phillips, L., & Naughton, F. (2021). Agreement and Disparities between Women and Stop-Smoking Specialists about How to Promote Adherence to Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Pregnancy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(9), Article 4673. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094673

Evidence for the effectiveness of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for smoking-cessation in pregnancy is weak. This has been attributed to insufficient dosing and low adherence. This study investigated the acceptability of key messages and delivery... Read More about Agreement and Disparities between Women and Stop-Smoking Specialists about How to Promote Adherence to Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Pregnancy.

Randomised controlled trial of a Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) smoking cessation smartphone app: The Quit Sense feasibility trial protocol (2021)
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Naughton, F., Brown, C., High, J., Notley, C., Mascolo, C., Coleman, T., …Hope, A. (2021). Randomised controlled trial of a Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) smoking cessation smartphone app: The Quit Sense feasibility trial protocol. BMJ Open, 11, Article e048204. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048204

Introduction A lapse (any smoking) early in a smoking cessation attempt is strongly associated with reduced success. A substantial proportion of lapses are due to urges to smoke triggered by situational cues. Currently no available interventions proa... Read More about Randomised controlled trial of a Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) smoking cessation smartphone app: The Quit Sense feasibility trial protocol.

A digital behaviour change intervention to increase booking and attendance at Stop Smoking Services: the MyWay feasibility RCT (2021)
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Fulton, E. A., Newby, K., Kwah, K., Schumacher, L., Gokal, K., Jackson, L. J., …Brown, K. E. (2021). A digital behaviour change intervention to increase booking and attendance at Stop Smoking Services: the MyWay feasibility RCT. Public Health Research, 9(5), 1-62. https://doi.org/10.3310/phr09050

Background: Smoking remains a leading cause of illness and preventable death. NHS Stop Smoking Services increase quitting, but, as access is in decline, cost-effective interventions are needed that promote these services. StopApp™ (Coventry Universit... Read More about A digital behaviour change intervention to increase booking and attendance at Stop Smoking Services: the MyWay feasibility RCT.

Trends in prescribing of nicotine replacement therapy to pregnant women in primary care in England (2021)
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Szatkowski, L., Reeves Vaz, L., Fiaschi, L., Tata, L., & Coleman, T. (2021). Trends in prescribing of nicotine replacement therapy to pregnant women in primary care in England. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 23(9), 1607-1610. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntab037

Introduction: Smoking during pregnancy remains common and the English National Health Service (NHS) has recently been directed to prioritise providing cessation support for pregnant women. We investigated the impact on prescribing of stop smoking tre... Read More about Trends in prescribing of nicotine replacement therapy to pregnant women in primary care in England.

A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing Adherence among Pregnant Women Taking Part in a Trial of E-Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation (2021)
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Ford, A., Uny, I., Lowes, J., Naughton, F., Cooper, S., Coleman, T., …Ussher, M. (2021). A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing Adherence among Pregnant Women Taking Part in a Trial of E-Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(2), Article 430. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020430

Use of e-cigarettes (vaping) has potential to help pregnant women stop smoking. This study explored factors influencing adherence among participants in the vaping arm of the first trial of vaping for smoking cessation in pregnancy. We conducted semi-... Read More about A Qualitative Study of Factors Influencing Adherence among Pregnant Women Taking Part in a Trial of E-Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation.

Using Trial Sequential Analysis for estimating the sample sizes of further trials: example using smoking cessation intervention (2020)
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Claire, R., Gluud, C., Berlin, I., Coleman, T., & Leonardi-Bee, J. (2020). Using Trial Sequential Analysis for estimating the sample sizes of further trials: example using smoking cessation intervention. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20(1), Article 284. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01169-7

Background: Assessing benefits and harms of health interventions is resource-intensive and often requires feasibility and pilot trials followed by adequately powered randomised clinical trials. Data from feasibility and pilot trials are used to infor... Read More about Using Trial Sequential Analysis for estimating the sample sizes of further trials: example using smoking cessation intervention.