ArticlePreventing chronic disease2011
Nicotine dependence and its risk factors among users of veterans health services, 2008-2009.
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- Impact of group motivational interviewing on enhancing treatment engagement for homeless Veterans with nicotine dependence and other substance use disorders: A pilot investigation.The American journal on addictions · 2016Trial
- Multicomponent smoking cessation treatment including mobile contingency management in homeless veterans.The Journal of clinical psychiatry · 2015Trial
- Mobile contingency management as an adjunctive smoking cessation treatment for smokers with posttraumatic stress disorder.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013Trial
- Homelessness Among U.S. Veterans: National Trends, Correlates, and Mental Health Burden.Journal of community health · 2026Article
- Mobile health contingency management for smoking cessation among veterans experiencing homelessness: A comparative effectiveness trial.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Timely Curative Treatment and Overall Mortality Among Veterans With Stage I NSCLC.JTO clinical and research reports · 2023Article
- Contingency management and cognitive behavior therapy for smoking cessation among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: Design and methodology of a randomized clinical trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2022Article
- Lung Cancer Staging at Diagnosis in the Veterans Health Administration: Is Rurality an Influencing Factor? A Cross-Sectional Study.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2020Article
- Racial and Sociodemographic Disparities in Internet Access and eHealth Intervention Utilization Among Veteran Smokers.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2016Article
- Cigarette Smoking and Sociodemographic, Military, and Health Characteristics of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans: 2009-2011 National Health Study for a New Generation of US Veterans.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · 2016Article
- Reduced nicotine product standards for combustible tobacco: building an empirical basis for effective regulation.Preventive medicine · 2014Review
- Homelessness, cigarette smoking and desire to quit: results from a US national study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2013Article
- Disease and illness: prevention, treatment, caring, and health.Preventing chronic disease · 2011Article
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Abstract
introductionTobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States and is disproportionately higher among veterans than nonveterans. We examined the prevalence of nicotine dependence and its associated risk factors among veterans who used health services in the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) system.
methodsUsing a case-control design, we compared all VA health service users in fiscal year 2008-2009 (N = 5,031,381) who received a nicotine dependence diagnosis with those who did not. Independent risk and protective factors associated with receiving a nicotine dependence diagnosis were identified using logistic regression analysis. We conducted subgroup analyses on 2 groups of particular policy concern: homeless veterans and veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
resultsAmong all recent VA health service users, 15% (n = 749,353) received a diagnosis of nicotine dependence. Substance abuse, other mental health diagnoses, and homelessness were identified as major risk factors. Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan were not found to be at increased risk compared to veterans from other war eras. Major risk and protective factors within the subgroups of homeless veterans and veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan were broadly similar to those in the general VA population.
conclusionGiven that other studies have found higher rates of nicotine dependence among veterans, this risk behavior may be underdiagnosed in VA medical records. Veterans who are homeless or have mental health or substance abuse problems are at highest risk and should be targeted for smoking prevention and cessation interventions. These results support, in principle, efforts to integrate smoking cessation programs with mental health and homeless services.
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