Alicia K Matthews, Suchanart Inwanna, Jennifer Akufo, Cherdsak Duangchan, Safa Elkefi, Geri Donenberg
{"title":"An exploration of attitudes regarding the use of a state tobacco Quitline for smoking cessation among low-income adults with a history of smoking.","authors":"Alicia K Matthews, Suchanart Inwanna, Jennifer Akufo, Cherdsak Duangchan, Safa Elkefi, Geri Donenberg","doi":"10.18332/tpc/193572","DOIUrl":"10.18332/tpc/193572","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Smoking rates among low-income smokers are significantly elevated. State tobacco quitlines offer free and evidence-based treatments for smokers living in that state. This study investigated knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs associated with engagement with the Illinois Tobacco Quitline among confirmed smoking patients at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Further goals were to obtain recommendations for strategies to improve patient awareness and engagement.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data for this study were collected from August to October 2021 from patients receiving care in an FQHC in a large midwestern city in the USA. Clinic-based recruitment was used to enroll a sample of adult current smokers. In-depth interviews and brief surveys were completed with a volunteer sample of patients recruited from an FQHC. The interviews took approximately 60 minutes. Data analysis used descriptive statistics to summarize the responses to the study and deductive thematic analysis to analyze the qualitative interviews.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Study participants (n=25) were primarily male, African American, and middle-aged (mean age: 52.5 years). The majority were daily smokers. Over half had heard about the Quitline from sources such as radio advertisements, but usage was low. Barriers to use included low motivation to quit, questions about effectiveness, and poor success with prior Quitline attempts. Participants described factors that would increase the appeal of the Quitline, including testimonials, personalization, and an empathetic approach. Participants were asked about the acceptability of receiving information about the Quitline via patient portals, and most were in support.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Interventions are needed to raise awareness and utilization of Quitlines among patients receiving care in FQHC settings. Distribution of Quitline information via patient portals is an acceptable strategy for increasing awareness of services.</p>","PeriodicalId":44546,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Prevention & Cessation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11537038/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum: Self-reported smoking status and exhaled carbon monoxide in secondary preventive follow-up after coronary heart events: Do our patients tell the truth?","authors":"","doi":"10.18332/tpc/193831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/193831","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.18332/tpc/191843.].</p>","PeriodicalId":44546,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Prevention & Cessation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11537181/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Estey, Geoffrey F Wayne, Amanda Sharp, Katie E Holmes, Rujuta Takalkar, Ana M Progovac, Benjamin Lê Cook
{"title":"Corrigendum: Associations between vaping and daily cigarette consumption among individuals with psychological distress.","authors":"David Estey, Geoffrey F Wayne, Amanda Sharp, Katie E Holmes, Rujuta Takalkar, Ana M Progovac, Benjamin Lê Cook","doi":"10.18332/tpc/193846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/193846","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.18332/tpc/189769.].</p>","PeriodicalId":44546,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Prevention & Cessation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11528377/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142568173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alicia K Matthews, Cherdsak Duangchan, Jennifer Afuko, Hope Opuada, Geri Donenberg
{"title":"Knowledge, attitudes, and referral practices for smokers to a state tobacco quitline in a federally qualified healthcare center: Healthcare provider perspectives.","authors":"Alicia K Matthews, Cherdsak Duangchan, Jennifer Afuko, Hope Opuada, Geri Donenberg","doi":"10.18332/tpc/191728","DOIUrl":"10.18332/tpc/191728","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Federally qualified healthcare centers (FQHC) treat a large population of low-income patients disproportionately burdened by tobacco use. This study investigated healthcare providers' knowledge, attitudes, and referral patterns of patients who smoke to a state tobacco quitline.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study used a descriptive-qualitative design. In-depth interviews were conducted in 2021 with a sample of healthcare providers recruited from a federally qualified healthcare center (FQHC) in a large city in the Midwest. The interviews were guided by a standardized moderator's guide and lasted 30-45 minutes. Written informed consent was obtained before each interview, and participants completed a brief self-administered survey.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among the 25 participants, 92% were female and 44% were Black. Participants included medical providers (52%), behavioral health providers (16%), and other types of providers (32%). Participants' age and work experience averaged 41.5 and 5.25 years, respectively. Only 32% of providers reported having specialty training in smoking cessation or addiction counseling. Over half (52%) of the participants never or rarely referred patients to the Illinois Tobacco Quitline (ITQL). Providers reported several barriers to referring patients to the ITQL, including limited knowledge about services offered, time constraints, difficulties with the referral process, and lack of feedback between providers and the ITQL. Further, providers described patient-related barriers, including low motivation to quit smoking, language barriers, and failure of patients to respond to calls from the quitline. Recommendations were described for improving patient and provider education, referral processes, and increasing bi-directional communication between providers and the quitline.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Providers identified numerous barriers to referring patients for smoking cessation treatment. Addressing the identified barriers requires a multi-faceted approach involving education, streamlined processes, supportive infrastructure, and patient-centered interventions to strengthen provider use and satisfaction with the available resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":44546,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Prevention & Cessation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11524048/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marta Costa-Romero, Andrea Mella-Bermudez, Tania Iglesias-Cabo
{"title":"Association between maternal smoking and duration of breastfeeding in very low birth weight preterm infants after discharge from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.","authors":"Marta Costa-Romero, Andrea Mella-Bermudez, Tania Iglesias-Cabo","doi":"10.18332/tpc/194190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/194190","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44546,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Prevention & Cessation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11519744/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142548177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhanna Sargsyan, Ana Dekanosidze, Varduhi Hayrumyan, Arevik Torosyan, Yuxian Cui, Lilit Grigoryan, Nour Alayan, Varduhi Petrosyan, Alexander Bazarchyan, Lela Sturua, Regine Haardörfer, Michelle C Kegler, Carla J Berg
{"title":"Exposure to e-cigarette and heated tobacco product advertisements via digital, traditional media, and points-of-sale: An examination of associations with use intentions and perceived risk among adults in Armenia and Georgia.","authors":"Zhanna Sargsyan, Ana Dekanosidze, Varduhi Hayrumyan, Arevik Torosyan, Yuxian Cui, Lilit Grigoryan, Nour Alayan, Varduhi Petrosyan, Alexander Bazarchyan, Lela Sturua, Regine Haardörfer, Michelle C Kegler, Carla J Berg","doi":"10.18332/tpc/191992","DOIUrl":"10.18332/tpc/191992","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>E-cigarette and heated tobacco product (HTP) marketing often leverages digital media and points-of-sale (POS) and advertises risk reduction, including in Armenia and Georgia where male cigarette use rates are high.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using 2022 survey data from Armenian and Georgian adults (n=1468, mean age=42.92 years, 51.4% female; and past-month use of e-cigarettes 3.2%, HTPs 2.7%, and cigarettes 31.6%), multivariable linear regression examined 4 outcomes - e-cigarette and HTP use intentions and perceived risk (1=not at all, to 7=extremely) - in relation to past-month e-cigarette or HTP advertisement exposure via digital media, traditional media, and POS, controlling for covariates (country, age, gender, education level, relationship status, children, past-month cigarette and e-cigarette/HTP use).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>E-cigarette and HTP use intentions were low (mean score=1.47, SD=1.39 each), while perceived risk was high (mean score=5.83, SD=1.6, and mean score=5.87, SD=1.56, respectively). Past-month exposure to e-cigarette and HTP advertisements, respectively, were 12.9% and 11.2% via digital media, 6.1% and 4.8% traditional media, and 22.5% and 21.1% POS. For e-cigarettes, ad exposure via digital media was associated with greater use intentions (β=0.24; 95% CI: 0.03-0.44), ad exposure via traditional media (β= -0.32; 95% CI: -0.55 - -0.09) and POS (β= -0.30; 95% CI: -0.60 - -0.004) was associated with lower risk perceptions. For HTPs, ad exposure via digital media (β=0.35; 95% CI: 0.14-0.56) and POS (β=0.21; 95% CI: 0.04-3.63) was associated with greater use intentions, and ad exposure at POS was associated with lower risk perceptions (β= -0.23; 95% CI: -0.42 - -0.03).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Tobacco control efforts should monitor and regulate e-cigarette and HTP marketing, particularly via digital media which may effectively promote use, and via POS which may target and influence risk perceptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":44546,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Prevention & Cessation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11504294/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142509983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Irene Possenti, Silvano Gallus, Alessandra Lugo, Anna Mar López, Giulia Carreras, Raquel Fernández-Megina, Adrián González-Marrón, Giuseppe Gorini, Helena Koprivnikar, Efstathios Papachristou, Angeliki Lambrou, Sotiria Schoretsaniti, Melinda Pénzes, Dolors Carnicer-Pont, Esteve Fernandez
{"title":"Best practices for secondhand smoke and secondhand aerosol protection and evidence supporting the expansion of smoke- and aerosol-free environments: Recommendations from the 2nd Joint Action on Tobacco Control.","authors":"Irene Possenti, Silvano Gallus, Alessandra Lugo, Anna Mar López, Giulia Carreras, Raquel Fernández-Megina, Adrián González-Marrón, Giuseppe Gorini, Helena Koprivnikar, Efstathios Papachristou, Angeliki Lambrou, Sotiria Schoretsaniti, Melinda Pénzes, Dolors Carnicer-Pont, Esteve Fernandez","doi":"10.18332/tpc/193147","DOIUrl":"10.18332/tpc/193147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44546,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Prevention & Cessation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11491856/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dolors Carnicer-Pont, Anna Mar López Luque, Biljana Kilibarda, Milena Vasic, Melinda Penzes, Chiara Stival, Adrian Gonzalez, Helena Koprivnikar, Giulia Carreras, Giuseppe Gorini, Irene Possenti, Alessandra Lugo, Silvano Gallus, Esteve Fernández
{"title":"Best practices for expansion of smoke-free and aerosol-free environments in Europe: Protocol for the consultation to experts.","authors":"Dolors Carnicer-Pont, Anna Mar López Luque, Biljana Kilibarda, Milena Vasic, Melinda Penzes, Chiara Stival, Adrian Gonzalez, Helena Koprivnikar, Giulia Carreras, Giuseppe Gorini, Irene Possenti, Alessandra Lugo, Silvano Gallus, Esteve Fernández","doi":"10.18332/tpc/192786","DOIUrl":"10.18332/tpc/192786","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Smoke-free legislation has been shown to positively impact reducing secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure, especially in countries that have implemented comprehensive legislation rather than partial bans. Also, secondhand aerosols (SHA) that come from the heating of tobacco or liquids, with or without nicotine, in electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) have been proven to increase levels of harmful substances in the air. Therefore, protection against SHS and SHA exposure and expansion of smoke- and aerosol-free environments (SAFE) should be taken into account when creating or trying to expand or enforce clean air policies. This article aims to present the protocol for a consultation with experts on tobacco and nicotine control in order to identify best practices, barriers, and opportunities for the expansion of SAFE in Europe. We identified experts among policymakers, researchers, and tobacco regulators in European countries and invited them to participate in the consultation by completing an online survey designed, programmed, and pilot-tested using Survey Monkey. The responses to the questionnaire contained quantitative and qualitative information that was thematically analyzed. The experts' consultation allowed us to produce a report on barriers and opportunities for SAFE, a report and a position paper on SAFE best practices, a web-based repository of best practices, and a weight of evidence paper that assembles evidence supporting the expansion of SAFE on indoor and outdoor spaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":44546,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Prevention & Cessation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11487914/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sophie J A Jooren, Jeroen Bommelé, Eefje Willemse, Maria W J Jansen, Marc C Willemsen
{"title":"Formulating tobacco control policies: How can local governments contribute?","authors":"Sophie J A Jooren, Jeroen Bommelé, Eefje Willemse, Maria W J Jansen, Marc C Willemsen","doi":"10.18332/tpc/191844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/191844","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Due to a continuing international trend of decentralization of public health policies, local governments are given an increasingly important role in tobacco control. The process of developing local-level tobacco control policies is an underexplored topic. This study uses grant applications as a data source to gain insight into the planning, development and proposed implementation of local tobacco control policies by regional public health departments in the Netherlands.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Grant applications of 24 regional public health departments were analyzed using the second stage of the rational policy cycle, a four-stages policy model about the decisions made by local policy makers during the policy process. We coded the applications with open and axial coding.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Public health departments formulated four main goals for tobacco control: adding tobacco control policies to existing local policy documents, creating smoke-free (child) environments, developing and improving access to smoking cessation care, and participating in media campaigns. Public health departments often specify tobacco control aims and involve partners in reaching these aims. However, the grant applications lacked information about implementing these tobacco control policies.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The information on implementation strategies and process evaluation, as well as the (evidence-based) legitimation for the policy choices, needs improvement. Under the current conditions, which include the brief explanation the departments received, an unclear mandate, insufficient funding, and local restricting factors such as time and knowledge, significant contributions to tobacco control policy cannot be expected from local governments.</p>","PeriodicalId":44546,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Prevention & Cessation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11484495/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patient-provider communication about cigarette and e-cigarette use during pregnancy: Adaptation and validation of frequency and quality of communication measures among a sample of pregnant patients.","authors":"Emily M Richardson, Eric Schisler, Page D Dobbs","doi":"10.18332/tpc/193605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/193605","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Quality of patient-provider communication regarding tobacco use may encourage cessation that could lead to improved health outcomes for mothers and children. However, currently there are no validated measures of frequency and quality of patient-provider communication about cigarettes and e-cigarettes. The objective of this study was to adapt and validate measures of frequency and quality of patient-provider communication about smoking and e-cigarette use among a sample of pregnant mothers who currently smoked.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An online sample of US pregnant women who reported past 30-day smoking were recruited to complete a cross-sectional, online survey (n=267). An exploratory factor analysis examined the factor structure of four measures of frequency and quality of patient-provider communication about cigarettes and e-cigarettes among those who reported prior communication with their provider about cigarettes and e-cigarettes (n=170). Relationships between measures were explored, and a logistic regression explored each measure's association with intention to switch from cigarettes to e-cigarettes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Items measuring the frequency of communication loaded onto one factor for both cigarettes and e-cigarettes (α=0.88). Quality of communication loaded onto two factors for both cigarettes and e-cigarettes, termed active communication and internalized perception. Internalized perceptions of communication quality about cigarettes (β= -0.32, p<0.002), active communication (β=0.46, p<0.02), and internalized perceptions of communication about e-cigarettes (β= -0.36, p<0.001) were related to intention to switch, in separated models.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Quality conversations between healthcare providers and pregnant patients is likely more important for behavioral decision-making than the frequency of communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":44546,"journal":{"name":"Tobacco Prevention & Cessation","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11457087/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142394028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}