Sarah Grogan

TL;DR: How culturally embedded health promotion messages were discussed and understood by young smokers–and how continued smoking was rationalised in the context of a thoroughgoing anti-smoking climate is investigated.

TL;DR: The authors found that children as young as 8 years give accounts of body dissatisfaction that are similar to those of adult women, and that suggest acceptance of the slim adult ideal, suggesting cultural influences on young women that encourage objectification and criticism of the body.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the experiences of maintaining and dropping out of a gym-based exercise program with 14 people, aged 19-32 years, comprising seven men and two women who had maintained their gym membership and three women and two men who had not Member validation interviews were conducted 20 months later with one man who was previously maintaining but had since dropped out, and one woman originally not maintaining who had at the time of validation been maintaining for three months Data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis, highlighting five themes Upward social comparisons, gym culture and exercise habit were

TL;DR: The broad aims of the present evaluation were to describe the information and support needs of callers to a Cancer Helpline and the response of the service to these needs and to use these results to develop strategies to improve the service.

TL;DR: This pragmatic trial supports the use of repeated implementation intentions about how to refuse the offer of a cigarette plus antismoking messages as an effective and cost-effective intervention to reduce smoking initiation in adolescents.