ArticleTobacco control2007
Use of nicotine replacement therapy to reduce or delay smoking but not to quit: prevalence and association with subsequent cessation efforts.
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- How do we determine the impact of e-cigarettes on cigarette smoking cessation or reduction? Review and recommendations for answering the research question with scientific rigor.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2018Pooled it
- Effectiveness and safety of nicotine replacement therapy assisted reduction to stop smoking: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2009Pooled it
- Integrating tobacco treatment into cancer care: Study protocol for a randomized controlled comparative effectiveness trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2016Trial
- Comparative effectiveness of motivation phase intervention components for use with smokers unwilling to quit: a factorial screening experiment.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2016Trial
- Comparison of the characteristics of long-term users of electronic cigarettes versus nicotine replacement therapy: A cross-sectional survey of English ex-smokers and current smokers.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Article
- An efficient early phase 2 procedure to screen medications for efficacy in smoking cessation.Psychopharmacology · 2014Review
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- Non-cigarette tobacco products: what have we learnt and where are we headed?Tobacco control · 2012Review
- US smokers' reactions to a brief trial of oral nicotine products.Harm reduction journal · 2011Article
- Over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapy: can its impact on smoking cessation be enhanced?Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2008Review
- Smokers' use of nicotine replacement therapy for reasons other than stopping smoking: findings from the ITC Four Country Survey.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2008Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the prevalence of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) use for purposes other than quitting smoking and examine the relation of this non-standard NRT use (NSNRT) with subsequent smoking cessation efforts.
designA population based cohort study of adult smokers who were interviewed by telephone at baseline (2001-2) and at two year follow-up. The association between NSNRT use to cut down on smoking or to delay smoking before baseline and cessation attempts and smoking outcomes at two year follow-up was assessed using logistic regression to adjust for multiple potential confounding factors.
settingMassachusetts, USA. SUBJECTS: 1712 adult smokers in Massachusetts who were selected using a random digit dial telephone survey.
main outcome measuresQuit attempt in 12 months before follow-up, NRT use at quit attempt in 12 months before follow-up, smoking cessation by follow-up, or 50% reduction in cigarettes smoked per day between baseline and follow-up.
results18.7% of respondents reported ever having used NSNRT. In a multiple logistic regression analysis, there was no statistically significant association between past NSNRT use and quit attempts (OR(cut down) = 0.89, 95% CI 0.59 to 1.33; OR(delay) = 1.29, 95% CI 0.73 to 2.29), smoking cessation (OR(cut down) = 0.74, 95% CI 0.43 to 1.24; OR(delay) = 1.22, 95% CI 0.60 to 2.50) or 50% reduction in cigarettes smoked per day (OR(cut down) = 0.93, 95% CI 0.62 to 1.38; OR(delay) = 0.80, 95% CI 0.43 to 1.49) at follow-up. Past use of NRT to cut down on cigarettes was associated with use of NRT at a follow-up quit attempt (OR(cut down) = 2.28, 95% CI 1.50 to 3.47) but past use of NRT to delay smoking was not (OR(delay) = 1.25, 95% CI 0.67 to 2.34).
conclusionsUse of NRT for reasons other than quitting smoking may be more common than was previously estimated. This population based survey finds no strong evidence that NRT use for purposes other than quitting smoking is either harmful or helpful.
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