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Smokers who have not tried alternative nicotine products: a 2019 survey of adults in Great Britain

AIMS: Switching from smoking to using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) or heated tobacco products can reduce tobacco-related health risks. However, not all smokers in Great Britain have tried these products. This study aimed to identify and describe smokers wh...

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Autores principales: Simonavicius, Erikas, McNeill, Ann, Cheeseman, Hazel, Arnott, Deborah, Brose, Leonie S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7362479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32664883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-020-00391-2
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author Simonavicius, Erikas
McNeill, Ann
Cheeseman, Hazel
Arnott, Deborah
Brose, Leonie S.
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Arnott, Deborah
Brose, Leonie S.
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description AIMS: Switching from smoking to using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) or heated tobacco products can reduce tobacco-related health risks. However, not all smokers in Great Britain have tried these products. This study aimed to identify and describe smokers who have never tried alternative nicotine products. METHODS: We analysed cross-sectional survey data of smokers (n = 1777) from a representative adult sample from Great Britain. The online survey was run in March 2019. The proportion of smokers who had never used alternative nicotine products was measured. A multivariate logistic regression assessed the association between never having used alternative nicotine products and sociodemographic and smoking characteristics and motivation to stop smoking. RESULTS: One in four smokers (27.8%, 95% CI 25.8–29.9%) had never tried NRT, e-cigarettes or heated tobacco products. These smokers were more commonly from Black and Minority than White ethnic groups (AOR = 1.55; 95% CI 1.02–2.31), were more likely to smoke up to 10 versus more cigarettes per day (AOR = 1.52; 95% CI 1.14–2.03) and to report low versus moderate or high motivation to stop smoking (AOR = 1.79; 95% CI 1.20–2.74). CONCLUSION: Light smokers, those unmotivated to stop and smokers from Black and Minority ethnic groups are less likely to have ever tried alternative nicotine products. Different approaches are needed to facilitate harm reduction and smoking cessation among these groups of smokers.
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spelling pubmed-73624792020-07-17 Smokers who have not tried alternative nicotine products: a 2019 survey of adults in Great Britain Simonavicius, Erikas McNeill, Ann Cheeseman, Hazel Arnott, Deborah Brose, Leonie S. Harm Reduct J Brief Report AIMS: Switching from smoking to using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) or heated tobacco products can reduce tobacco-related health risks. However, not all smokers in Great Britain have tried these products. This study aimed to identify and describe smokers who have never tried alternative nicotine products. METHODS: We analysed cross-sectional survey data of smokers (n = 1777) from a representative adult sample from Great Britain. The online survey was run in March 2019. The proportion of smokers who had never used alternative nicotine products was measured. A multivariate logistic regression assessed the association between never having used alternative nicotine products and sociodemographic and smoking characteristics and motivation to stop smoking. RESULTS: One in four smokers (27.8%, 95% CI 25.8–29.9%) had never tried NRT, e-cigarettes or heated tobacco products. These smokers were more commonly from Black and Minority than White ethnic groups (AOR = 1.55; 95% CI 1.02–2.31), were more likely to smoke up to 10 versus more cigarettes per day (AOR = 1.52; 95% CI 1.14–2.03) and to report low versus moderate or high motivation to stop smoking (AOR = 1.79; 95% CI 1.20–2.74). CONCLUSION: Light smokers, those unmotivated to stop and smokers from Black and Minority ethnic groups are less likely to have ever tried alternative nicotine products. Different approaches are needed to facilitate harm reduction and smoking cessation among these groups of smokers. BioMed Central 2020-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7362479/ /pubmed/32664883 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-020-00391-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Cheeseman, Hazel
Arnott, Deborah
Brose, Leonie S.
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title Smokers who have not tried alternative nicotine products: a 2019 survey of adults in Great Britain
title_full Smokers who have not tried alternative nicotine products: a 2019 survey of adults in Great Britain
title_fullStr Smokers who have not tried alternative nicotine products: a 2019 survey of adults in Great Britain
title_full_unstemmed Smokers who have not tried alternative nicotine products: a 2019 survey of adults in Great Britain
title_short Smokers who have not tried alternative nicotine products: a 2019 survey of adults in Great Britain
title_sort smokers who have not tried alternative nicotine products: a 2019 survey of adults in great britain
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7362479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32664883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-020-00391-2
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