The effects of interventions targeting multiple health behaviors on smoking cessation outcomes: a rapid realist review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health behaviors directly impact the health of individuals, and populations. Since individuals tend to engage in multiple unhealthy behaviors such as smoking, excessive alcohol use, physical inactivity, and eating an unhealthy diet simultaneously, many large community-based interventions have been implemented to reduce the burden of disease through the modification of multiple health behaviors. Smoking cessation can be particularly challenging as the odds of becoming dependent on nicotine increase with every unhealthy behavior a smoker exhibits. This paper presents a protocol for a rapid realist review which aims to identify factors associated with effectively changing tobacco use and target two or more additional unhealthy behaviors.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Minian N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5831832 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature