Contact

• workRoom B125 Clinical Sciences
  Nottingham City Hospital
  Hucknall Road
  Nottingham
  NG5 1PB
  UK
• work0115 8231361
• fax0115 8231337
• Rebecca.Thorley@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Rebecca is currently employed as a Trial Manager in the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health working on exploratory randomized control trials looking at new approaches to smoking cessation. Her work includes protecting children from second hand smoke, finding ways to support newly abstinent smokers to remain quit after discharge from hospital and more recently a personalised smoking cessation intervention delivered to patients after lung screening.

Research Summary

Rebecca is currently working on an randomised controlled trial adding a personalised smoking cessation intervention to a lung screening programme: The Yorkshire Enhanced Stop Smoking Study

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..

• View all publications

Past Research

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
• 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..
• 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.