November 2020
The following is a monthly list of selected journal articles and reports on tobacco topics. Please note that this list is not all-inclusive. We try to choose titles of interest to our tobacco control network, but we realize that there are many relevant articles that are not listed. Archived issues of Current Abstracts are also available.
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Michael Chaiton comments on a smoking cessation study that found that rates of cessation are consistent over multiple attempts and suggests clinicians shouldn’t be cautious about encouraging attempts among help-seeking patients.
Cessation—Clinical Settings
Chaiton M. Commentary on Stepankova et al . (2020): Try, try, try again—smoking cessation clinics and their role in the cessation journey. Addiction. Published online November 16, 2020:add.15304.
Hot Topics
New data from the US demonstrated that 50 million Americans used tobacco products and 80% of them used combustible products.
Tobacco Products—Prevalence
Cornelius ME, Wang TW, Jamal A, Loretan CG, Neff LJ. Tobacco product use among adults — United States, 2019. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2020;69(46):1736-1742. FREE
Mark Eisenberg from Montreal lead an RCT of the effect of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation tool. After early success, rates were not different than counseling alone after two years.
Cessation—E-Cigarettes
Eisenberg MJ, Hébert-Losier A, Windle SB, et al. Effect of e-cigarettes plus counseling vs counseling alone on smoking cessation. JAMA. 2020;324(18):1844. FREE
Reviews
Cessation—Health Care Settings
Ekezie W, Murray RL, Agrawal S, Bogdanovica I, Britton J, Leonardi-Bee J. Quality of smoking cessation advice in guidelines of tobacco-related diseases: An updated systematic review. Clinical Medicine. 2020;20(6):551-559.
Cessation—Youth
Vallata A, O’Loughlin J, Cengelli S, Alla F. Predictors of cigarette smoking cessation in adolescents: A systematic review. Journal of Adolescent Health. Published online 2020.
Initiation—LGBT
Li J, Berg CJ, Weber AA, Vu M, Nguyen J, Haardörfer R, Windle M, Goodman M, Escoffery C. Tobacco use at the intersection of sex and sexual identity in the U.S., 2007–2020: A Meta-Analysis. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Published online November 2020.
Recent Work by Canadian Researchers
Cessation—Chinese Populations
Tregobov N, Poureslami I, Shum J, Aran N, McMillan A, FitzGerald JM. Assessing factors influencing smoking and smoking cessation within Chinese communities in the Greater Vancouver Area: A qualitative exploratory study. Tobacco Prevention & Cessation. 2020;6(October):1-14. FREE
Cessation—COVID
Wunsch H, Brodie D. The Pandemic that always strains critical care: smoking. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. Published online November 12, 2020:AnnalsATS.202009-1137VP.
Cessation—Mental Health
Dahal R, Bhattarai A, Adhikari K. Variation in characteristics of people with mental disorders across smoking status in the Canadian general population. Tobacco Prevention & Cessation. 2020;6(October):1-10.
Cessation—Technological Interventions
Almusharraf F, Rose J, Selby P. Engaging unmotivated smokers to move towards quitting: design of motivational interviewing-based chatbot through iterative interactions. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2020;22(11). FREE
Prevalence—Cigarettes
Manuel DG, Wilton AS, Bennett C, Rohit Dass A, Laporte A, Holford TR. Smoking patterns based on birth-cohort-specific histories from 1965 to 2013, with projections to 2041. Health Reports. 2020;31(11):16-31. FREE
Prevalence—Health Care Settings
Tolmie A, Erker R, Oyedokun T, Sullivan E, Graham T, Stempien J. Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking Among Adult Emergency Department Patients in Canada. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2020;21(6).
Tobacco Industry—Alcohol Use
Dermody SS, Tessier KM, Meier E, et al. An evaluation of potential unintended consequences of a nicotine product standard: A focus on drinking history and outcomes. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Published online November 21, 2020.