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Electronic cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid for patients with cancer: beliefs and behaviours of clinicians in the UK.
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- General practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices surrounding the prescription of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation: a mixed-methods systematic review.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
- The old and familiar meets the new and unknown: patient and clinician perceptions on e-cigarettes for smoking reduction in UK general practice, a qualitative interview study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Trial
- Perspectives of Turkish family physicians in Istanbul about e-cigarettes as smoking cessation aids: a cross-sectional survey study.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2026Article
- Spatiotemporal analysis of electronic cigarette discussion on Twitter/X using natural language processing.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Smoking and Vaping Profiles of Healthcare Workers and Their Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Regarding Vaping.Florence Nightingale journal of nursing · 2026Article
- Healthcare professionals' roles, perceptions, and interventions relating to e-cigarette and vaping practices: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Spatiotemporal Analysis of Electronic Cigarette Perception on Twitter/X Using Natural Language Processing.Research square · 2026Article
- Attitudes of people diagnosed with cancer and cancer care providers towards use of nicotine vaping products in high-income countries: a scoping review.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2025Article
- Medicalisation of vaping in the UK? E-cigarette users' perspectives on the merging of commercial and medical routes to vaping.Perspectives in public health · 2025Article
- Australian general practitioners' knowledge, attitudes and prescribing intentions for e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid: a nationwide baseline and 12-month follow up survey.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Misconceptions About E-cigarettes Among Healthcare Workers at Primary Health Care Centers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Cureus · 2025Article
- Strategies to tackle non-communicable diseases in Afghanistan: A scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo explore UK clinicians' beliefs and behaviours around recommending e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid for patients with cancer.
designCross-sectional online survey.
settingEngland, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
participantsClinicians involved in the care of patients with cancer. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOMES: Behavioural Change Wheel capability, opportunity and motivation to perform a behaviour, knowledge, beliefs, current practice around e-cigarettes and other smoking cessation practices.
methodClinicians (n=506) completed an online survey to assess beliefs and behaviours around e-cigarettes and other smoking cessation practices for patients with cancer. Behavioural factors associated with recommending e-cigarettes in practice were assessed.
results29% of clinicians would not recommend e-cigarettes to patients with cancer who continue to smoke. Factors associated with recommendation include smoking cessation knowledge (OR 1.56, 95% CI 1.01 to 2.44) and e-cigarette knowledge (OR 1.64, 95% CI 1.06 to 2.55), engagement with patients regarding smoking cessation (OR 2.12, 95% CI 1.12 to 4.03), belief in the effectiveness of e-cigarettes (OR 2.36 95% CI 1.61 to 3.47) and belief in sufficient evidence on e-cigarettes (OR 2.08 95% CI 1.10 to 4.00) and how comfortable they felt discussing e-cigarettes with patients (OR 1.57 95% CI 1.04 to 2.36).
conclusionMany clinicians providing cancer care to patients who smoke do not recommend e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid and were unaware of national guidance supporting recommendation of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid.
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