ReviewAlcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)2022
Smoking As an Outcome Moderator In the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders.
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- Reductions in cigarette and cannabis use during a randomized clinical trial for alcohol use disorder.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2026Trial
- Clinical and preclinical evidence of sex differences in nicotine-induced enhancement of alcohol self-administration.Psychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Exploring the association between sweet liking and treatment response to naltrexone in patients with alcohol use disorder.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Self-help group participation, avoidance of nonalcoholic beer, and nonsmoking independently predict better drinking outcomes in Japanese alcohol-dependent men.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- Psychological distress, tobacco smoking and alcohol use: A population survey in Great Britain.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Article
- The Association Between Alcohol Consumption and Anal Human Papillomavirus in the HPV Infection in Men Study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Differences in Provider Beliefs and Delivery of the 5As for Cigarette and Non-Cigarette Tobacco Use Between Two Types of Healthcare Centers Serving Rural and/or Medically Underserved Areas of Texas, US.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prevalence and associated factors of overweight and obesity among medical students from the Western Balkans (South-East Europe Region).BMC public health · 2024Article
- Smoking and alcoholism dual addiction dissemination model analysis with optimal control theory and cost-effectiveness.PloS one · 2024Article
- A drink equals how many cigarettes? Equating mortality risks from alcohol and tobacco use in Canada.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Educating Substance Use Treatment Center Providers on Tobacco Use Treatments Is Associated with Increased Provision of Counseling and Medication to Patients Who Use Tobacco.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
aimsTo clarify whether smoking interferes with successful treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD).
methodsThe current systematic review investigates the potential moderating effect of smoking on behavioural and pharmacological treatment of AUD. In addition, this review summarizes the results of randomized controlled trials investigating the effect of smoking cessation treatments in subjects with AUD on drinking outcomes.
resultsOverall, the results show that 16 out of the 31 pharmacological and psychotherapeutic alcohol treatment studies showed that being a non-smoker or decreased tobacco consumption during AUD treatment is associated with beneficial drinking outcomes, including reduced drinking, later relapse and prolonged alcohol abstinence. As such, smoking predicts poorer drinking outcomes in alcohol treatments. In the stop-smoking studies in patients with AUD, reduced smoking had virtually no effect on drinking behaviours. The inverse association between smoking and drinking outcome observed here indicates that non-smokers may be more successful to attain alcohol abstinence than smokers do. However, this association does not imply per se that smoking triggers alcohol consumption, since it can also mean that alcohol consumption promotes smoking.
conclusionsIt is concluded that (continued) tobacco smoking may have a negative moderating effect on the treatment outcome of AUD treatments. To optimize treatment outcome of AUD one may consider informing and counselling patients with AUD about the risks of smoking for treatment outcomes and offering support for smoking cessation.
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