Smoking and Tobacco News

A media briefing hosted by the University of California, San Francisco, Smoking Cessation Leadership Center and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation highlighted the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on smoking disparities in minority populations.

The Healio Editors compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in December.

Studies that have found a link between smoking and COVID-19 severity provide a new reason for primary care physicians to keep talking to their patients about ways to quit smoking, an expert told Healio.

A retrospective analysis published in JAMA Cardiology found significant improvement in atherosclerotic CVD risk prediction among participants with former smoking, pack-years and years since quitting.

Among Black adults, an acceptance and commitment therapy-based smartphone app was more effective for smoking cessation compared with a conventional app, researchers reported in Addiction.

Pregnant women were more likely to adhere to smoking abstinence if they received financial incentives as part of their treatment plan, according to findings published in The BMJ.

Men who used e-cigarettes daily were more than twice as likely to report erectile dysfunction than those who never used e-cigarettes, according to findings published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

The Healio Editors compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in November.

Compared with cancer survivors, stroke survivors were less likely to quit smoking, with nearly 40% continuing to smoke after the stroke, suggested new data.

New data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that current smoking was associated with fatal events caused by MI and stroke as first clinical CVD manifestations.