Seung Hee Choi

projects
Preferences of Smoking Cessation Interventions for Wayne State University Students: Discrete Choice Experiment (ongoing)
Preferences for Couple Based Smoking Cessation Interventions Among Smoker Couples (ongoing)

Faculty Profile

Assistant Professor
hc0054@wayne.edu

Program of Research title

Smoking behavior among underserved populations, Smoking cessation programs for smoker couples

Suffix

PhD, RN

Destination Statement

Smoking remains the leading cause of death globally. Despite a significant decrease in smoking prevalence in the general population over the past 50 years, there are sub-populations that do not benefit from smoking cessation programs, resulting in health disparities among underserved populations. The ultimate goal of my research is to reduce health disparities by promoting smoking cessation among underserved populations.

Populations of interests

  • Smoker couples
  • Blue collar workers
  • Cancer patients

Office Address

350 Cohn, 5557 Cass Ave., Detroit, MI 48202

Program of Research

Dr. Seung Hee Choi’s research has focused on the effects of engaging in multiple health behaviors, where individuals participate in two or more health risk behaviors simultaneously. Specifically, Dr. Choi has examined the impact of smoking-involved multiple health behaviors on health outcomes and health-related quality of life. Engaging in multiple health behaviors has been associated with a higher risk of developing chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases or cancers, and increased all-cause mortality. Notably, when smoking is involved in multiple health behaviors, mortality risks are even higher than those associated with other risk behaviors.

More recently, Dr. Seung Hee Choi has focused on smoker couples, where at least one partner smokes. She conducted several survey studies with smoker couples to examine couple dynamics associated with smoking behavior and preferences for couple-based smoking cessation interventions. Based on the findings from these survey studies, Dr. Choi and her team developed a web app for smoking cessation, WeQuit, tailored to smoker couples. The WeQuit app is currently undergoing pilot testing. Dr. Choi’s long-term goal is to promote smoking cessation and health by advancing smoking cessation interventions specifically designed for underserved smokers, including smoker couples.

Phone

313-577-8945

Office Hours

Wednesday, 4-5 p.m.

Bio Sketch

As a behavioral scientist and nurse researcher, Dr. Choi has focused on smoking behavior and its impact on health outcomes among underserved populations such as blue collar workers, cancer patients and smoker couples where at least one partner smokes. Dr. Choi has published 26 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals with moderate- to high-impact factors ranging from 0.90 to 5.04. One of her papers has been selected as a Top 10% Most Cited Paper by Plos One in 2019. She has delivered more than 33 presentations at international, national and regional conferences. Dr. Choi has been chosen as a New Investigator Award Winner for Best Abstracts by the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco in 2018 and has co-authored one book chapter about nursing research.

Education

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2014
  • PhD, University of Michigan, 2012
  • MSN, Seould National University, 2008
  • BSN, Inha University, 2000

Selected publications

  • Choi, SH., Templin, T. (in press). Discrete Choice Experiment for Dyadic Data Collection: Eliciting Preferences of Couple-Based Smoking Cessation Interventions. Women’s health Nursing.
  • Choi, SH., Templin, T. (2023). College Students’ Preferences for Smoking Cessation Interventions: A Discrete Choice Experiment. Health Education Research. 38(6): 563-574. doi:10.1093/her/cyad035.
  • Choi, SH., Templin, T., & Marrocco, A. (2023) Development of an online discrete choice experiment to elicit preferences for tobacco treatment among college students. Journal of American College Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2023.2227715.
  • Kim, W., Choi, SH. (2023). Smoking, stress, and health risk behaviors during the early phase of COVID-19 lockdown among residents of Flint, Michigan. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
  • Choi, SH. Stommel, M., Broman, C., Raheb-Rauckis, C. (2022). Age of Smoking Initiation in Relation to Multiple Health Risk Factors Among U.S. Adult Smokers: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data (2006 – 2018). Behavioral Medicine. 2022:1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2022.2060930.
  • Choi, SH. (2022). A Systematic Review and Narrative Summary of Couple-based Smoking Cessation Interventions. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. doi: 10.1177/02654075211070272.
  • Choi, SH., Stommel, M., Ling, J., Noonan, D., Chung, J. (2020). The impact of smoking and multiple health behaviors on all-cause mortality. Behavioral Medicine. 2020:1-8. doi: 10.1080/08964289.2020.1796570.
  • Broman, C., Wright, MK., Choi, SH., & Wang, Y. (2020). Heavy substance use in young adulthood. Journal of Substance Use. doi: 10.1080/14659891.2020.176036
  • Choi, SH., Ling, J., Noonan, D., Kim, W. (2019). Smoking Behavior and Social Contexts Associated with Smoking Among Dual-Smoker Couples. Public Health Nursing
  • Choi, SH., Chan, R., Lehto, RH. (2019). Relationships between smoking status and psychological distress, optimism, and health environment perceptions at time of diagnosis of actual or suspected lung cancer. Cancer Nursing

 

Research Description

Most recently, Dr. Choi conducted an online survey study with dual-smoker couples where both members smoke. She and her team found that the majority of dual-smoker couples engaged in multiple health behaviors and preferred technology-based smoking cessation interventions, such as web-based interventions and/or smartphone apps over face-to-face interventions.