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E-Cigarette Quit Attempts and Experiences in a Convenience Sample of Adult Users
Most e-cigarette users report planning to quit, but there is a paucity of evidence-based interventions for e-cigarette cessation. In the absence of interventions for e-cigarette cessation, we sought to understand how and why e-cigarette users attempt to quit on their own. Participants were recruited...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9916273/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36767698 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032332 |
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author | Bluestein, Meagan A. Bejarano, Geronimo Tackett, Alayna P. Duano, Jaimie C. Rawls, Shelby Grace Vandewater, Elizabeth A. Ahluwalia, Jasjit S. Hébert, Emily T. |
author_facet | Bluestein, Meagan A. Bejarano, Geronimo Tackett, Alayna P. Duano, Jaimie C. Rawls, Shelby Grace Vandewater, Elizabeth A. Ahluwalia, Jasjit S. Hébert, Emily T. |
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description | Most e-cigarette users report planning to quit, but there is a paucity of evidence-based interventions for e-cigarette cessation. In the absence of interventions for e-cigarette cessation, we sought to understand how and why e-cigarette users attempt to quit on their own. Participants were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing platform. Those who reported they had ever used e-cigarettes regularly and had attempted to quit e-cigarette use were eligible for participation. Measures included demographic characteristics, other tobacco product use, e-cigarette device characteristics, barriers to quitting e-cigarettes, and facilitators to quitting e-cigarettes. A content analysis was conducted on twotwo open-ended questions that asked about advice respondents had for others trying to quit vaping and resources they wished they had during their quit attempt. Descriptive analyses were performed (means/standard errors; frequencies/proportions). A total of 89.0% reported using an e-cigarette with nicotine, 20.2% reported a nicotine concentration of 4–6 mg/mL%, 32.8% reported using multiple flavors, and 77.7% reported using their e-cigarette every day or some days. The primary reason reported for wanting to quit e-cigarettes was health concerns (42.2%), and 56.7% reported trying to quit “cold turkey”. During quit attempts, 41.0% reported intense cravings and 53.1% reported stress as a trigger. From the content analysis, the most commonly cited suggestion for those wanting to quit e-cigarettes was distractions/hobbies (19.9%), followed by reducing/tapering down nicotine (16.9%). Descriptive information on demographics, e-cigarette use, device characteristics, barriers, facilitators, and quit methods provides a first step in identifying factors that contribute to successful interventions designed for e-cigarette cessation. |
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spelling | pubmed-99162732023-02-11 E-Cigarette Quit Attempts and Experiences in a Convenience Sample of Adult Users Bluestein, Meagan A. Bejarano, Geronimo Tackett, Alayna P. Duano, Jaimie C. Rawls, Shelby Grace Vandewater, Elizabeth A. Ahluwalia, Jasjit S. Hébert, Emily T. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Most e-cigarette users report planning to quit, but there is a paucity of evidence-based interventions for e-cigarette cessation. In the absence of interventions for e-cigarette cessation, we sought to understand how and why e-cigarette users attempt to quit on their own. Participants were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing platform. Those who reported they had ever used e-cigarettes regularly and had attempted to quit e-cigarette use were eligible for participation. Measures included demographic characteristics, other tobacco product use, e-cigarette device characteristics, barriers to quitting e-cigarettes, and facilitators to quitting e-cigarettes. A content analysis was conducted on twotwo open-ended questions that asked about advice respondents had for others trying to quit vaping and resources they wished they had during their quit attempt. Descriptive analyses were performed (means/standard errors; frequencies/proportions). A total of 89.0% reported using an e-cigarette with nicotine, 20.2% reported a nicotine concentration of 4–6 mg/mL%, 32.8% reported using multiple flavors, and 77.7% reported using their e-cigarette every day or some days. The primary reason reported for wanting to quit e-cigarettes was health concerns (42.2%), and 56.7% reported trying to quit “cold turkey”. During quit attempts, 41.0% reported intense cravings and 53.1% reported stress as a trigger. From the content analysis, the most commonly cited suggestion for those wanting to quit e-cigarettes was distractions/hobbies (19.9%), followed by reducing/tapering down nicotine (16.9%). Descriptive information on demographics, e-cigarette use, device characteristics, barriers, facilitators, and quit methods provides a first step in identifying factors that contribute to successful interventions designed for e-cigarette cessation. MDPI 2023-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9916273/ /pubmed/36767698 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032332 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Bluestein, Meagan A. Bejarano, Geronimo Tackett, Alayna P. Duano, Jaimie C. Rawls, Shelby Grace Vandewater, Elizabeth A. Ahluwalia, Jasjit S. Hébert, Emily T. E-Cigarette Quit Attempts and Experiences in a Convenience Sample of Adult Users |
title | E-Cigarette Quit Attempts and Experiences in a Convenience Sample of Adult Users |
title_full | E-Cigarette Quit Attempts and Experiences in a Convenience Sample of Adult Users |
title_fullStr | E-Cigarette Quit Attempts and Experiences in a Convenience Sample of Adult Users |
title_full_unstemmed | E-Cigarette Quit Attempts and Experiences in a Convenience Sample of Adult Users |
title_short | E-Cigarette Quit Attempts and Experiences in a Convenience Sample of Adult Users |
title_sort | e-cigarette quit attempts and experiences in a convenience sample of adult users |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9916273/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36767698 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032332 |
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