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Kenneth Michael Cummings
Researcher at Medical University of South Carolina
Publications - 47
Citations - 4917
Kenneth Michael Cummings is an academic researcher from Medical University of South Carolina. The author has contributed to research in topics: Smoking cessation & Tobacco control. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 47 publications receiving 4592 citations. Previous affiliations of Kenneth Michael Cummings include Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
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Predictors of smoking cessation in a cohort of adult smokers followed for five years.
Norman Hymowitz,Kenneth Michael Cummings,Andrew Hyland,W. R. Lynn,Terry F. Pechacek,Tyler Hartwell +5 more
TL;DR: Despite the fact that most smokers expressed a strong desire to stop smoking in 1988, the majority, especially the most dependent heavy smokers (>25 cigarettes/day), struggled unsuccessfully to achieve this goal.
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Effectiveness of cigarette warning labels in informing smokers about the risks of smoking: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey
TL;DR: Smokers are not fully informed about the risks of smoking, and Warnings that are graphic, larger, and more comprehensive in content are more effective in communicating the health risks ofsmoking.
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Individual-level predictors of cessation behaviours among participants in the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey.
Andrew Hyland,Ron Borland,Qiang Li,Hua-Hie Yong,Ann McNeill,Geoffrey T. Fong,Richard J O'Connor,Kenneth Michael Cummings +7 more
TL;DR: Intention to quit and other cognitive variables were associated with quit attempts, but not cessation, and Behavioural variables related to task difficulty, including measures of dependence, predicted both making attempts and their success.
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The cigarette pack as image: new evidence from tobacco industry documents
TL;DR: Cigarette pack design is an important communication device for cigarette brands and acts as an advertising medium and there is a need to consider regulation of cigarette packaging.
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Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (Commit) .1. Cohort Results from A 4-Year Community Intervention:
W. R. Lynn,Laurence S. Freedman,Sylvan B. Green,Donald K. Corle,Mitchell H. Gail,Russell E. Glasgow,Tyler Hartwell,Kenneth Michael Cummings,Judith K. Ockene,CA Giffen +9 more