{"id":527485,"date":"2018-09-07T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1624527\/researchers-study-factors-influencing-airmens-tobacco-use-during-technical-trai\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T16:05:00","slug":"researchers-study-factors-influencing-airmens-tobacco-use-during-technical-training-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=527485","title":{"rendered":"Researchers study factors influencing Airmen\u2019s tobacco use during technical training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force strictly regulates tobacco use during basic and technical training, but some Airmen still use it. Air Force researchers are working with the University of Virginia to uncover why Airmen use tobacco.<br \/> <br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2014\/Aug\/19\/2001962819\/82\/55\/0\/140813-F-BD468-007.JPG' alt='Despite strict policies on tobacco use and awareness of the risks to health, readiness, and performance, some Airmen continue to use tobacco products. Retired Col. G. Wayne Talcott, consultant, Chief of Air Force Health Promotions at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas and director, Military Population Health Program at the University of Virginia, and his team are working to understand what factors contribute to Airmen\u2019s tobacco use and improve current tobacco cessation efforts. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Erica Crossen)' \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force strictly regulates tobacco use during basic and technical training, but some Airmen still use it. Air Force researchers are working with the University of Virginia to uncover why Airmen use tobacco. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2868,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527486,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527485\/revisions\/527486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}