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ArticleJournal of smoking cessation2018

Does E-cigarette Use at Baseline Influence Smoking Cessation Rates among 2-Year College Students?

Erika Snow, Tye Johnson, Deborah J Ossip, Geoffrey C Williams, Duncan Ververs, Irfan Rahman, Scott McIntosh

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Article in Journal of smoking cessation, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Dual Users Compared to Smokers: Demographics, Dependence, and Biomarkers.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Erika SnowDepartment of Public Health Sciences; University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
Tye JohnsonDepartment of Public Health Sciences; University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
Deborah J OssipDepartment of Public Health Sciences; University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
Geoffrey C WilliamsDepartment of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
Duncan VerversDepartment of Public Health Sciences; University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
Irfan RahmanDepartment of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
Scott McIntoshDepartment of Public Health Sciences; University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
University of Rochester Medical Center · US

Funding

Web-Assisted Tobacco Intervention with Community College StudentsR01CA152093 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI MCINTOSH, SCOTT · 2011 to 2015
$2.5M
The University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Science InstituteTL1TR000096 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI BENNETT, NANCY M, KIEBURTZ, KARL D. · 2012 to 2015
$930k
NCATS NIH HHS TL1 TR000096NCI NIH HHS R01 CA152093
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThis study evaluates the impact of baseline e-cigarette use on smoking cessation rates in a national sample of two-year college student smokers.

methodsParticipants were 1400 students from over 60 two-year colleges across 25 states who were current smokers enrolled in a web-assisted tobacco intervention (WATI) trial. Survey data were collected at baseline, 1-, 6-, and 12-months, with primary outcomes evaluated at 6-months.

resultsAt 6-months, baseline e-cigarette users were more likely to report cessation of traditional cigarettes compared to non-users (OR 1.39, 95% CI 1.002-1.92). Cessation was also associated with higher baseline confidence in quitting and greater time to first cigarette in the morning. Baseline e-cigarette use was not found to be associated with self-reported cessation of all nicotine/tobacco products (OR 1.09, 95% CI 0.75-1.58) nor biochemically verified cessation of all nicotine/tobacco products (OR 0.83, 95% CI 0.47-1.47). Higher confidence was again associated with both self-reported and biochemically verified cessation of all nicotine/tobacco products. Female gender was associated only with biochemically verified cessation of all nicotine/tobacco products at 6-months.

conclusionsTwo-year college students represent a priority population for cessation interventions. The findings from this study highlight the complexities of evaluating the impact of e-cigarette use on cessation.

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CessationElectronic cigarettesSpecial populationsWeb-assisted tobacco intervention

Identifiers

PMID30034554
PMCPMC6051717
OpenAlexW2732628196

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