Contact

• workApplied Health and Research Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 74 85410
• fax07824 082602
• Rebecca.Thorley@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Rebecca is currently employed as a Trial Manager in the Division of Lifespan and Population Health working on exploratory randomized control trials looking at new approaches to smoking cessation. Project areas include stop smoking services and lung cancer screening

Research Summary

Rebecca is currently working on the YorQuit Study, looking at ways to support people who attend for lung cancer screening programs to quit smoking.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-5006

Selected Publications

• THORLEY, REBECCA, BRITTON, JOHN, NYAKUTSIKWA, BLESSING, OPAZO BRETON, MAGDALENA, LEWIS, SARAH A and MURRAY, RACHAEL L, 2019. Enhanced smoking cessation support for newly abstinent smokers discharged from hospital (The Hospital to Home trial): A randomised controlled trial. Addiction (Abingdon, England).
• RATSCHEN, E., THORLEY, R., JONES, L., OPAZO BRETON, M., COOK, J., MCNEILL, A., BRITTON, J., COLEMAN, T. and LEWIS, S., 2018. A randomised controlled trial of a complex intervention to reduce children's exposure to secondhand smoke in the home. Tobacco control. 27(2), 155-162
• CHARLOTTE RENWICK, QI WU, MAGDALENA OPAZO BRETON, REBECCA THORLEY, JOHN BRITTON, SARAH LEWIS and ELENA RATSCHEN, 2018. Cost-effectiveness of a complex intervention to reduce children’s exposure to second-hand smoke in the home BMC Public Health.
• ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, 2018. Hiding in plain sight: Treating tobacco dependency in the NHS: A report by the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians Royal College of Physicians..

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Past Research

The Yorkshire Enhanced Stop Smoking Study. The Yorkshire Enhanced Stop Smoking study measured the effectiveness of an smoking cessation service integrated within the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial (YLST) and tested the efficacy of a personalised smoking cessation intervention, incorporating incidental findings detected on the low-dose CT scan performed as part of YLST.

A randomised control trial looking at enhanced smoking cessation support packages for newly abstinent smokers discharged from hospital.

An exploratory randomised control trial of an intervention to reduce children's exposure to second hand smoke in the home.

• THORLEY, REBECCA, BRITTON, JOHN, NYAKUTSIKWA, BLESSING, OPAZO BRETON, MAGDALENA, LEWIS, SARAH A and MURRAY, RACHAEL L, 2019. Enhanced smoking cessation support for newly abstinent smokers discharged from hospital (The Hospital to Home trial): A randomised controlled trial. Addiction (Abingdon, England).
• RATSCHEN, E., THORLEY, R., JONES, L., OPAZO BRETON, M., COOK, J., MCNEILL, A., BRITTON, J., COLEMAN, T. and LEWIS, S., 2018. A randomised controlled trial of a complex intervention to reduce children's exposure to secondhand smoke in the home. Tobacco control. 27(2), 155-162
• ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, 2018. Hiding in plain sight: Treating tobacco dependency in the NHS: A report by the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians Royal College of Physicians..
• RACHAEL L MURRAY, REBECCA THORLEY, SARAH LEWIS, MAGDALENA OPAZO BRETON, BLESSING NYAKUTSIKWA, KELISHA CHEEMA and JOANNE ABLEWHITE, 2018. Systematic delivery of a smoking cessation intervention after discharge from a secondary care setting In: 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, WCTOH.