Tobacco Control Research in BC

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This database is compiled with funding assistance from Health Canada and the cooperation of the tobacco control research community in BC. It is intended to benefit individuals and organizations in the tobacco control community in BC by providing knowledge of tobacco control work in the province.

The database lists tobacco control research being conducted either by BC based researchers and/or about BC in part or in whole by researchers outside of the province. The database is compiled solely through information collected directly from the researchers themselves. As such, the project managers cannot guarantee the completeness of the database.

	Title	Researchers	Research Organization	Funding Organization	Research Description	Control Classification	Research Target Groups	Contract Size (CAD)
More Inside	Safety and Tolerability of Varenicline when used for Smoking Cessation/Reduction in Individuals with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SATOVA): An Open Label Pilot Trial	Dr. Ric M. Procyshyn (Principal Investigator) Dr. Alasdair Barr (Co-Investigator) Dr. Joyce Coutts (Co-Investigator) Dr. Sean Flynn (Co-Investigator) Dr. Chris Schenk (Co-Investigator) Dr. William Honer (Co-Investigator)	British Columbia Mental Health and Addictions Services	British Columbia Mental Health and Addictions Services	Researchers are looking to recruit a total of 50 subjects at Riverview and Forensic Psychiatric Hospital who would like to reduce or quit smoking cigarettes. This open label pilot study will gather information regarding the safety and tolerability of varenicline in subjects who have been diagnosed with ... (more inside)	Cessation Reduction	Individuals who are inpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder according to DSM-IV criteria. Also, the individuals must want to either reduce their cigarette use or stop cigarette smoking completely	$125,000
More Inside	FACET 3: Translating Knowledge into Tailored Interventions for Women and Men to Address Tobacco Use During Pregnancy and Postpartum	Dr. Joan Bottorff (Co-Principal Investigator) Dr. John Oliffe (Co-Principal Investigator) Dr. Lorraine Greaves (Co-Investigator) Radhika Bhagat (Decision Maker) Ann Dauphinee (Decision Maker) Patricia Hill (Decision Maker) Nancy Poole (Decision-Maker)	University of British Columbia	Canadian Institute of Health Research	To lay the foundation for evidence-based and innovative gender-sensitive approaches to tobacco reduction (TR), we have undertaken a program of research called FACET (Families Controlling and Eliminating Tobacco). FACET explored the gendered aspects of tobacco use and couple dynamics influencing TR. ... (more inside)	Cessation	Pregnant/postpartum women who smoke and fathers who smoke.	$116,667
More Inside	Knowledge Integration in Quitlines: Networks that Improve Cessation (KIQ NIC)	Scott Leischow (Principal Investigator) Allan Best (Co-Investigator) Dr. Keith Provan (Investigator) Dr. Michele Walsh (Investigator) Dr. Joseph Bonito (Investigator) Linda Bailey (Investigator) Gregg Moor (Project Manager)	University of Arizona North American Quitline Consortium	National Institutes of Health	One in every five deaths in the U.S. is related to tobacco use, and it remains the leading preventable cause of premature death. Given the highly complex nature of tobacco use as a public health threat, the National Cancer Institute supported an initiative and a recently published tobacco control monograph ... (more inside)	Cessation	Organizations operating and funding quitline services
More Inside	The Effect of Canadian Tobacco Control Policies	Dr. Lynda Gagné	University of Victoria	n/a	The research investigates the effect of Canadian tobacco control policies (smoking bans, youth access, package warnings, tobacco prices, tobacco control spending) on various outcomes including smoking prevalence and quantity smoked, using policy data along with data from the Canadian Tobacco Monitoring ... (more inside)	Cessation Prevention Protection Denormalization	Canadians Canadian workers Youth Adults Socioeconomic groups Men and women	n/a
More Inside	Knowledge to Action: Changing the Institutional Response to Tobacco Use in Community Mental Health Settings.	Dr. Joy Johnson (Principal Investigator) Dr. Pamela Ratner (Co-Principal Investigator) Dr. Ric Procyshyn (Co-Principal Investigator) Sridhar Pendakur (Co-Principal Investigator) Kim Calsaferri (Co-Principal Investigator) Christina Tonella (Co-Principal Investigator)	University of British Columbia	Canadian Institute of Health Research	This knowledge to action project is directed at improving and evaluating an evidence-based strategy to address the issue of providing smoking cessation or reduction support to those with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI). The objectives of the study are to: Use an action research ... (more inside)	Prevention Protection Denormalization	Individuals living with chronic mental illness/Health care providers working within the mental health system	$196,657