Improving Navy Women's Health: Preventing Smoking Relapse After Recruit Training

Abstract

Smoking is a modifiable behavior that is negatively related to women's health and physical readiness, and increases the burden on military health care systems. This behavior is of particular concern to the DoD because military women are more likely to smoke than their civilian counterparts and because women have greater difficulty quitting than do men. The present 2%-year study, funded by the Defense Women's Health Research Program (DWHRP), is testing innovative approaches to reduce smoking among Navy women by evaluating two different relapse-prevention interventions that support maintenance of the "quit status" organizationally mandated during basic training.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA332513

Entities

People

  • Terry L. Conway

Organizations

  • University of California, San Diego

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Basic Training
  • Body Weight
  • California
  • Data Analysis
  • Education
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States
  • Women'S Health

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