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Development and evaluation of SmokeFree Baby

First published: 09 May 2019 | Last updated: 20 May 2019

Tobacco smoking during pregnancy represents a serious health risk and cessation has huge benefits both for mothers and their children. Pharmacotherapy and behavioural support are effective to aid smoking cessation in the general population but have limited success in pregnancy. To improve behavioural treatment approaches for pregnant smokers, it would require novel targets for interventions and alternative modalities through which these programmes are delivered. Smartphones offer the potential for delivering behavioural support in a way that could be popular among pregnant smokers, and ‘identity change’ has been proposed a potentially useful target for smoking cessation interventions. This talk will discuss the development of SmokeFree Baby, a smartphone application for pregnant smokers, and describe the ways in which both qualitative and quantitative studies informed the content and design of the intervention that, among other key components, harnesses identity change as behaviour change technique to promote cessation in pregnant smokers. Ildiko Tombor’s PhD is funded by the Society for the Study of Addiction and the National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training provided further funding for the app development.

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Dr Ildiko Tombor

Research Associate


2015: Ph.D in Health Psychology; University College London, UK
2009: M.A in Psychology; University of Eotvos Lorand, Hungary
2009: M.A in Teacher of Psychology; University of Eotvos Lorand, Hungary

Publications

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ildiko_Tombor2​

Tombor, I., Shahab, L., Herbec, A., Neale, J., Michie, S., West, R. (under review in Health Psychology). Smoker identity and its potential role in young adults’ smoking behaviour: a meta-ethnography.
Herbec, A., Beard, E., Brown, J., Gardner, B., Tombor, I., West, R. (in press). The needs and preferences of pregnant smokers regarding tailored Internet-based Smoking Cessation Interventions: a qualitative interview study. BMC Public Health
Herbec, A., Brown, J., Tombor, I., Michie, S., West, R. (in press). Pilot randomized controlled trial of a prototype internet-based smoking cessation intervention for pregnant smokers (‘MumsQuit’). Drug and Alcohol Dependence, doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.04.010. Published Online: April 2014
Tombor, I., Neale, J., Shahab, L., Ruiz, M., West, R. (in press). Health care providers’ views on digital smoking cessation interventions for pregnant women. Journal of Smoking Cessation, doi: 10.1017/jsc.2014.6. Published Online: 10th March 2014
Tombor, I., Shahab, L., Brown, J., West, R. (2013). Positive smoker identity as a barrier to quitting smoking: findings from a national survey of smokers in England. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 133, 2, 740-745. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2013.09.001
Brose, L. S., Tombor, I., Shahab, L., West, R. (2013). The effect of reducing the threshold for carbon-monoxide validation of smoking abstinence – Evidence from the English Stop Smoking Services. Addictive Behaviors, 38, 2529-2531. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.04.006
Vajer, P., Urbán, R., Tombor, I., Stauder, A., Kalabay, L. (2011). Psychometric properties and construct validity of the Brief Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motives in an Internet-based sample of treatment-seeking Hungarian smokers. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 13, 4, 273-281. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntq254
Tombor, I., Urbán, R., Berkes, T., Demetrovics, Zs. (2010). Denial of smoking-related risk among pregnant smokers. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica, 89, 4, 524-530. doi: 10.3109/00016341003678427
Tombor, I., Paksi, B., Urbán, R., Kun, B., Arnold, P., Rózsa S., Demetrovics, Zs. (2010). [Epidemiology of smoking in Hungary – a national representative study] [Article in Hungarian]. Orvosi Hetilap, 151, 9, 330-337. doi: 10.1556/OH.2010.28817
Tombor, I., Urbán, R. (2010). [Towards the integration of the three approaches to nicotine dependence] [Article in Hungarian]. Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle, 65, 2, 321-341. doi: 10.1556/MPSzle.65.2010.2.9

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