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The UCL Tobacco and Research Group (UTARG) aims to advance and integrate population and individual approaches to quitting smoking and reducing alcohol consumption by:
- Providing insights into population-wide influences on smoking and alcohol consumption
- Advancing the scientific foundation, and further the development of interventions aimed at promoting smoking cessation and helping people reduce their alcohol consumption.
Meet the Team
Professor Robert West (Director)
Professor Jamie Brown (Co-Director)
Dr Lion Shahab (Deputy Director)
PhD Students: Loren Kock, Charlie Smith, Harry Tattan-Birch (Research Assistant/Trial Coordinator)
Research
Ongoing projects
- The Smoking Toolkit Study (STS) and the Alcohol Toolkit Study (ATS)
- Development and evaluation of digital behaviour change interventions
- The Human Behaviour Change Project
- Impact of long-term nicotine replacement therapy use and impact of nicotine metabolite ratio on pharmacotherapy effectiveness
- Shaping Public hEalth poliCies To Reduce ineqUalities and harM (SPECTRUM)
- Evaluating the effectiveness of the alcohol reduction smartphone app, Drink Less, among hazardous and harmful drinkers in the UK
Current PhD projects
- The impact of electronic cigarettes and individual-level interventions on socioeconomic inequalities in tobacco smoking cessation (Loren Kock)
- E-cigarettes for harm-reduction in people with mental illness (Charlie Smith)
Completed projects
- Use of smartphone applications to enhance smoking cessation support
- Association between electronic cigarette use and changes in quit attempts, success of quit attempts, use of smoking cessation pharmacotherapy, and use of stop smoking services in England: time series analysis of population trends
- Deconstructing the alcohol harm paradox: a population based survey of adults in England
- Internet-based intervention for smoking cessation (StopAdvisor) in people with low and high socioeconomic status: a randomised controlled trial
- Exposure to nicotine and tobacco-related toxicants in long-term users of nicotine-containing products
- Mapping incorrect causal beliefs about cancer: the IBAC study
- Research publications
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