A free smartphone app, Drink Less, can help people who would benefit most from reducing their alcohol consumption to do so successfully, finds #NIHRFunded trial: nihr.ac.uk/news/app-can-h…
@UCL UCL Population Health Sciences UCL IEHC ARIG Melissa Oldham Claire Garnett UCLnews

A free app, Drink Less, can help people who would benefit most from reducing their alcohol consumption to do so successfully, according to a large randomised controlled trial led by UCL researchers.
Melissa Oldham Claire Garnett Jamie Brown
Behavioural Science & Health UCL ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/mar/…

Brilliant work by Melissa Oldham and Claire Garnett and the entire DrinkLess team! From a public health perspective this is phenomenal: “a 2.00-unit greater weekly reduction at 6-month follow-up compared with the NHS alcohol advice webpage”

The Drink Less app, developed UCL, can help people cut down on unhealthy drinking more than the NHS alcohol advice webpage, finds a large randomised controlled trial led by Dr Melissa Oldham Behavioural Science & Health UCL & Dr Claire Garnett University of Bristol NIHR Research ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/mar/…

The Drink Less app may be helpful in helping increasing-and-higher-risk drinkers motivated to reduce their consumption to drink less alcohol.
The Drink Less app youtu.be/GAFHwwGuimg?si… via TeamYouTube

Excellent poster by Claire Garnett at #SRNT2024

4.6% of adults in England drink at increasing and higher risk levels and smoke - this is around 2million adults. Around half also experience distress and mental health conditions.

Disentangling effects of social smokers. New UCL_Tobacco_Alcohol analysis at #SRNT2024 led by Dimitra Kale. Less dependent, more motivated to quit but no more likely to succeed! Targeted education may be needed.

A hugely impressive systematic review by Corinna Leppin presented at #SRNT2024
Showing that digital smoking cessation interventions work across socioeconomic groups.
But it’s uncertain what the active ingredients are.
Protocol, data and analyses here: osf.io/4cgdb/

Powerful message from Hazel Cheeseman of ASH on the need to exclude the tobacco industry from the regulation of their own products.

Would bans address youth vaping?

Dr Dr Jasmine Khouja @Bristoluni BRistol Medical School (BRMS) Research with the research question…

bps.org.uk/psychologist/w…

What do we know about adults who combine smoking and at-risk drinking in England?🔎

In a new blog, Claire Garnett looks at the prevalence and characteristics of adults who both smoke and drink alcohol at risky levels and the need for targeted support.👇
ahauk.org/what-do-we-kno…