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The purpose of this review is to provide an update (since 2010) on research on women and smoking and, where appropriate, gender differences related to smoking behavior. We will review the epidemiology and health effects of smoking, and factors that may affect cessation.
1 Ιαν 2024 · Smoking stigma has been well documented, but little is known regarding its specific features and effects on women. Notably, women face unique social, cultural, and economic challenges that may interact with smoking stigma and impact health outcomes.
Understanding the factors that influence smoking initiation among women and girls is needed to address the growing epidemic of women smokers and the looming impact on women’s health worldwide. We assume that smoking initiation is embedded in socio-culturally influenced gendered context and use a social cognitive model with a gendered lens as ...
In other studies, women smokers had 2-fold more DNA adducts or frameshift mutations in the P53 gene than men smokers . This higher DNA damage among women smokers was also associated with a more accelerated risk of cancer and other age-related chronic diseases [25, 26]. While the current study showed that smoking increased risk for earlier age ...
10 Ιαν 2014 · New research suggests that, compared with men, women may be more susceptible to smoking-related morbidity and mortality. Gender-related barriers to smoking cessation include weight gain, sex hormones, and mood. Furthermore, the sensory aspects of smoking may have more of an effect on smoking treatment for women than for men.
31 Μαΐ 2010 · Overview. This monograph contributes to the scientific understanding of gender, women, and tobacco in the context of efforts to control the global tobacco epidemic. Topics covered include determinants of starting to use tobacco; exposure to second-hand smoke; the impact that tobacco use has on health; addiction and cessation; treatment programmes;
1 Νοε 2014 · This study extends the existing literature on the well-documented association between education and smoking on three fronts. The first is to refocus the theoretical discussion of the potential mechanisms linking education and smoking on adolescence rather than adulthood.
