VIDEO: More research needed on smoking cessation in women
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Julie A. Barta, MD, pulmonologist and assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, spoke with Healio about a presentation on lung cancer in women from CHEST 2021.
Her portion of the presentation focused on smoking cessation in women.
“Overall, in the general population, we know that cigarette smoking has been declining, and currently its prevalence is the lowest that it has been. But that rate of decline has been a little bit slower and to a lesser degree [in women] than in men.”
Barta explained that current data varies on whether or not women have differing experiences than men in smoking cessation and that some studies have shown certain women have greater odds of quitting when using certain medications compared with men.
“Overall, it’s a very complicated issue because there are a lot of social contextual, environmental and psychological factors that can come into play when we think about tobacco treatment and tobacco treatment counseling,” she said, adding that more research is needed to examine the gender and sexuality in smoking cessation.
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Gonzalez AV, et al. Addressing an Invisible Epidemic: Lung Cancer in Women. Presented at: CHEST Annual Meeting; Oct. 17-20, 2021 (virtual meeting).
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