Trial reportNicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2008
Older versus younger treatment-seeking smokers: differences in smoking behavior, drug and alcohol use, and psychosocial and physical functioning.
Trial report in Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation: effects by subgroup defined by genetically informed biomarkers.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Organic cation transporter variation and response to smoking cessation therapies.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2014Trial
- Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor variation and response to smoking cessation therapies.Pharmacogenetics and genomics · 2013Trial
- A further examination of the validity of assessing demand intensity using the Cigarette Purchase Task.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Determinants of tobacco use among men aged 15 to 59 in Sub Sahara Africa: a multilevel mixed effect logistic regression analysis.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Transdiagnostic Risk Factors for Reasons for Smoking: Evaluating the Concurrent Role of Distress Tolerance and Anxiety Sensitivity.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Exploring explainable machine learning algorithms to model predictors of tobacco use among men in Sub Sahara Africa between 2018 and 2023.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Isolating the Unique Role of Transdiagnostic Risk Factors and Perceived Barriers for Smoking Cessation.Addiction research & theory · 2025Article
- Determinants of persistent smoking among breast cancer survivors.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- An overview of systematic reviews on predictors of smoking cessation among young people.PloS one · 2024Review
- Pain Severity in Relation to Smoking Cessation Problems and Self-Efficacy for Quitting among Latinx Individuals Who Smoke Cigarettes: The Moderating Role of Perceived Discrimination.Substance use & misuse · 2024Article
- Pain Severity and Smoking Abstinence Expectancies among Latinx Individuals Who Smoke Cigarettes: The Moderating Role of Perceived Discrimination.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Smoking, distress and COVID-19 in England: Cross-sectional population surveys from 2016 to 2020.Preventive medicine reports · 2021Article
- Factors that Predict Smoking Cessation among Older Koreans: Based on the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2016-2018.Korean journal of family medicine · 2021Article
- Comparing participant estimated demand intensity on the cigarette Purchase Task to consumption when usual-brand cigarettes were provided free.Preventive medicine · 2020Article
- Factors Associated with the Intention to Quit Smoking in Elderly Korean Men: The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2010-2015.Korean journal of family medicine · 2020Article
- Updated Geriatric Cardiology Guidelines of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology - 2019.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2019Article
- Comparative Effectiveness of Varenicline and Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Smoking Cessation in Older and Younger Smokers: A Prospective Cohort in Taiwan.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019Article
- The importance of incorporating smoking cessation into lung cancer screening.Translational lung cancer research · 2018Review
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Abstract
Quitting smoking benefits older individuals, yet few recent studies have described older smokers. The goal of this paper was to test a series of hypotheses about differences between smokers aged 50 years or older (50+) and those younger than age 50 (<50) presenting to the same treatment facility during 2002-2004 for participation in two randomized clinical trials: one exclusively for smokers aged 50+, and a second open to smokers aged 18 or older. As predicted, smokers aged 50+ were more tobacco dependent, had better psychological functioning, and had poorer physical functioning than those aged <50. Contrary to predictions, we found no differences in motivation to quit cigarette smoking or in alcohol use. Women aged 50+ were less likely to report marijuana use than women aged <50, and less likely than men to receive a positive diagnosis for alcohol abuse. Despite higher scores on measures of tobacco dependence, older smokers were less likely to be diagnosed as tobacco dependent or as having tobacco withdrawal using DSM-IV criteria. Rates of DSM-IV alcohol abuse and dependence were high in both age groups but were higher for smokers aged <50. We found no striking differences between studies in reasons for exclusion, but in both the proportion of individuals excluded due to current antidepressant use was high. Implications for the assessment and treatment of older adults are discussed.
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