Exploring relationships among smoking cessation app use, smoking behavioral outcomes, and pharmacotherapy utilization among individuals who smoke cigarettes

IF 3.7 2区医学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Addictive behaviors Pub Date : 2025-04-09 DOI:10.1016/j.addbeh.2025.108354

Schuyler C. Lawson , Karin Kasza , R.Lorraine Collins , Richard J. O’Connor , Gregory G. Homish

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Abstract

Introduction

Most individuals who smoke cigarettes are interested in quitting, but many are unable to quit. Fewer than one-third of individuals who smoke cigarettes attempt to quit using FDA-approved cessation methods, such as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and prescription medications. Smoking cessation apps (SCAs) provide individuals with personalized quit plans, information about smoking cessation treatments, craving management strategies, and other features. However, their relationship to NRT/prescription medication utilization and quit attempts is understudied.

Methods

We conducted a longitudinal secondary data analysis using a subset of adults who smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime, currently smoked every day or some days, and planned to quit within a year. This subset was drawn from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, a nationally representative cohort study. We utilized Generalizing Estimating Equation models to examine the longitudinal associations between SCA use initiation and the following outcomes across 2014–2019: NRT, prescription medications, and quit attempts.

Results

SCA use initiation was associated with greater odds of prescription medication utilization (AOR = 2.43, 95 % CI: 1.63, 3.64; p < 0.05). Likewise, SCA use initiation was associated with greater odds of making a quit attempt (AOR = 1.38, 95 % CI: 1.09, 1.76; p < 0.01), but not NRT utilization.

Conclusion

Among adults who regularly smoked cigarettes and had plans to quit, SCA use initiation was associated with prescription medication utilization and quit attempts but not NRT utilization. SCAs may have utility as a population-level intervention but specific features needed to be studied further.

Abbreviations: SCA, Smoking Cessation App; NRT, Nicotine Replacement Therapy.

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Addictive behaviors 医学-药物滥用

CiteScore

8.40

自引率

4.50%

发文量

283

审稿时长

46 days

期刊介绍： Addictive Behaviors is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality human research on addictive behaviors and disorders since 1975. The journal accepts submissions of full-length papers and short communications on substance-related addictions such as the abuse of alcohol, drugs and nicotine, and behavioral addictions involving gambling and technology. We primarily publish behavioral and psychosocial research but our articles span the fields of psychology, sociology, psychiatry, epidemiology, social policy, medicine, pharmacology and neuroscience. While theoretical orientations are diverse, the emphasis of the journal is primarily empirical. That is, sound experimental design combined with valid, reliable assessment and evaluation procedures are a requisite for acceptance. However, innovative and empirically oriented case studies that might encourage new lines of inquiry are accepted as well. Studies that clearly contribute to current knowledge of etiology, prevention, social policy or treatment are given priority. Scholarly commentaries on topical issues, systematic reviews, and mini reviews are encouraged. We especially welcome multimedia papers that incorporate video or audio components to better display methodology or findings. Studies can also be submitted to Addictive Behaviors? companion title, the open access journal Addictive Behaviors Reports, which has a particular interest in ''non-traditional'', innovative and empirically-oriented research such as negative/null data papers, replication studies, case reports on novel treatments, and cross-cultural research.