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 21/2-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. Women smokers (n=3,036) were assigned to either a control group or one of two intervention groups at entry into basic training. One intervention group was encouraged to access a telephone helpline for counseling to remain a nonsmoker; the other group received a series of monthly mailings. Analyses of assessments at 3-, 6-, and 12-months post-graduation are being completed to evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions in maintaining the "cold turkey" smoking cessation induced during recruit training.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA359632
Entities
People
- Terry L. Conway
Organizations
- University of California, San Diego