C. Tracy Orleans

Inferring strategies for disseminating physical activity policies, programs, and practices from the successes of tobacco control (2006)

Green, Lawrence W, Orleans, C Tracy, Ottoson, Judith M, Cameron, Roy, Pierce, John P, Bettinghaus, Erwin P

Efforts at reducing tobacco use in the United States and Canada over the last half century have been amazingly successful. This article examines those efforts in order to identify policies, programs,...

External validity: we need to do more (2006)

Glasgow, Russell E., Green, Lawrence W., Klesges, Lisa M., Abrams, David B., Fisher, Edwin B., Goldstein, Michael G., ...

The article discusses the implications of two health research trends for improving the design, review and reporting of research and evaluation studies in the U.S. The first trend is the gap between...

A primer on current evidence-based review systems and their implications for behavioral medicine (2004)

Davidson, Karina W., Trudeau, Kimberlee J., Ockene, Judith K., Orleans, C. Tracy, Kaplan, Robert M.

BACKGROUND: Multiple review systems have been established within medicine and psychology to evaluate and disseminate research findings to clinical practice. PURPOSE: Within this article, five...

Do Restrictions on Smoking at Home, at School and in Public Places Influence Teenage Smoking? (2000)

Wakefield, Melanie A., Chaloupka, Frank J., Kaufman, Nancy J., Orleans, C. Tracy, Barker, Dianne C., Ruel, Erin E.

Objectives - To determine the relationship between extent of restrictions on smoking at home, at school and in public places, and smoking uptake, smoking prevalence and monthly cigarette consumption...

A meta-evaluation of smoking cessation intervention research among pregnant women: improving the science and art (1998)

Windsor, Richard A., Boyd, Neal Richard, Orleans, C. Tracy

In 1986 Windsor and Orleans described guidelines and standards to evaluate the quality of smoking cessation intervention research among pregnant women. This paper presents a meta-evaluation (ME) of...

Characteristics of smokers who enroll and quit in self-help programs (1992)

Schoenbach, Victor J., Orleans, C.Tracy, Wagner, Edward H., Quade, Dana, Salmon, Mary Anne P., Porter, Carol Q.

Smokers who volunteer for self-help smoking cessation programs may be poor candidates for such minimal treatments. Through general publicity, we recruited 2021 Health Maintenance Organization...

Preventing 3 Million Premature Deaths and Helping 5 Million Smokers Quit: A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation

Fiore, Michael C., Croyle, Robert T., Curry, Susan J., Cutler, Charles M., Davis, Ronald M., Gordon, Catherine, ...

In August 2002, the Subcommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health (ICSH) was charged with developing recommendations to substantially increase rates of tobacco...

Preventing 3 Million Premature Deaths and Helping 5 Million Smokers Quit: A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation

Fiore, Michael C., Croyle, Robert T., Curry, Susan J., Cutler, Charles M., Davis, Ronald M., Gordon, Catherine, ...

In August 2002, the Subcommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health (ICSH) was charged with developing recommendations to substantially increase rates of tobacco...