Smoking intervention in the workplace: Review and recommendations

Hallett, Robert

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“…Psychologists should also think critically and creatively about more effective and wide-reaching methods to promote smoking cessation. An area which we have not addressed in this paper is that of worksite smokingcessation interventions (e.g., Hallett, 1986). The potentials for reaching blue-collar workers, and for mobilising social support and incentive systems, are considerable.…”

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“…An area which we have not addressed in this paper is that of worksite smokingcessation interventions (e.g., Hallett, 1986). While it should continue to be a priority for psychologists to contribute to the development of more effective personalised smoking-cessation methods, discouraging the adoption of the smoking habit by young people is more likely to have significant long-term public health benefits.…”

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Psychology, public health, and cigarette smoking

Owen

Halford²

1988

Australian Psychologist

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Cigarette smoking is the single most lethal risk to health in Australia: it contributes significantly to premature mortality and morbidity, particularly from cardiovascular disease and cancer. Smoking appears to be initiated and maintained by a range of biological, psychological and social influences, and is a behaviour pattern which can be very resistant to change. Psychologists have contributed to the development of more effective face-to-face programs for smoking cessation. However, there needs to be a much stronger focus by our discipline on public-health aspects ofsmoking: understanding the social factors which influence smoking prevalence; discouraging the adoption of the smoking habit; and developing more effective and acceptahle methods for assisting large numbers of smokers to stop. The large-scale reduction of smoking prevalence should he a high priority for psychologists concerned with health promotion and chronic disease prevention.

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Psychology, public health, and cigarette smoking

Owen

Halford²

1988

Australian Psychologist

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“…Four reviews have evaluated the evidence from studies of a variety of workplace smoking interventions (Glasgow and Klesges, 1985;Hallett, 1986;'Klesges, Cigrang and Glasgow, 1987;Orleans and Shipley, 1982). All concluded that there were few controlled studies and no evidence for the clear superiority of any particular method, though more intensive programmes seemed to be more effective overall.…”

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Intervening against smoking in the workplace

Hallett¹,

Sutton²

1988

Psychology & Health

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The workplace is an underused location for intervening against smoking. This may be because companies are not aware of the benefits of reducing smoking prevalence amongst employees or do not have access to information on how to set up and evaluate programmes. Few controlled studies of workplace smoking interventions have been reported so there is little information on which strategies are most likely to be effective in particular workplace settings. This paper discusses the main stages involved in the development and implementation of workplace smoking interventions (including the factors that should influence the intervention selected) and reports the pooled results of eight experimental studies of two types of smoking intervention. Six studies examined the efficacy of interventions based on the use of videotapes and two a treatment based on nicotine chewing gum (Nicorette). There was evidence for the effectiveness of the gum treatment but not the videotapes. Nicotine gum appears to be a promising treatment for smoking in workplace settings. The implications of our results for the design of workplace smoking interventions are discussed.

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“…plicated as the primary cause of premature death and disability in the United States (Cinelli, 1988). The synergistic effect of smoking along with exposure to work environment substances places certain workers who smoke, i.e., asbestos workers, coal miners, and cotton workers, at a much higher risk for lung disease than non-smokers (Cooper, 1978;Hallett, 1986). In addition, nonsmokers have become much more vocal about their rights, and are demanding a smoke free environment.…”

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“…One of the simplest and perhaps least expensive strategies an employer can use to reduce the prevalence of smoking is to prohibit onsite smoking (Hallett, 1986). However, no clear evidence documents that this strategy results in an overall decrease in smoking (Borland, 1990).…”

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Smoking Cessation Programs in the Workplace

Strasser¹

1991

AAOHN Journal

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Smoking intervention in the workplace: Review and recommendations

Cited by 45 publications

References 36 publications

Psychology, public health, and cigarette smoking

Psychology, public health, and cigarette smoking

Intervening against smoking in the workplace

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