Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction
Since the 1950s when theevidence on smoking causing serious, fatal diseases began consolidating,hundreds of millions of smokers have quit. Overwhelmingly, the great majorityquit unassisted without any professional or pharmaceutical help. But from thelate 1970s, massive campaigns have urged smokers not to go the cold turkeyroute and instead take nicotine replacement therapy, prescribed drugs and mostrecently, to vape. Simon Chapman is a veteran researcher, a global publichealth advocate and an A…
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Since the 1950s when theevidence on smoking causing serious, fatal diseases began consolidating,hundreds of millions of smokers have quit. Overwhelmingly, the great majorityquit unassisted without any professional or pharmaceutical help. But from thelate 1970s, massive campaigns have urged smokers not to go the cold turkeyroute and instead take nicotine replacement therapy, prescribed drugs and mostrecently, to vape. Simon Chapman is a veteran researcher, a global publichealth advocate and an Australian Skeptic of the Year. In this book he analysesthe relentless push to medicalise and commodify quitting and sets out thosepolicies and campaigns which have collectively driven smoking rates down torecord low levels.
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- Publication Date:©2022.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Sydney University Press
- Place of Publication:Sydney
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2022.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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- Description:1 online resource (395 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781743328590, 1743328591
- oclc:on1347593032
Table of Contents
Intro -- Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction -- Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Quitting cigarettes -- Early Australian efforts at promoting quitting -- Australia's first mass-reach quit-smoking campaign -- We must provide help! -- Nascent scepticism starts to foment -- Individuals or populations? -- Early provocations -- Outline of this book -- How do most people quit other addictions? -- Alcohol -- Opiates -- American armed forces heroin users after the Vietnam War -- Cannabis -- Problem gambling -- How we study quitting smoking: a critical look -- Evidence is not the plural of anecdote -- Self-selection bias -- Randomised controlled trials -- Trial exclusion criteria -- Hawthorne, attention and social desirability effects in RCTs -- Trial participant retention strategies -- Trialists are often paid and drugs are free -- Blindness integrity problems -- The pleasures of smoking? -- Can smokers guess if they have been allocated to the placebo arm? -- Competing interest bias -- Positive outcome bias -- "Intention to treat" analysis -- Citation bias -- Real-world observational studies 1: Cross-sectiona…
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