Edie

Socioeconomic Trends in Adolescent Smoking in Finland From 2000 to 2015

Edie - Jue, 14/02/2019 - 08:57
Knaappila, Noora, Mauri Marttunen, Sari Fröjd, Nina Lindberg, and Riittakerttu Kaltiala-Heino. "Socioeconomic Trends in Adolescent Smoking in Finland From 2000 to 2015." Journal of Adolescent Health (2019).
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Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Tobacco Use By Youth Is Rising – February 2019 – Vital Signs

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - Mié, 13/02/2019 - 15:08
Youth tobacco product use in the US is increasing at an alarming rate and you can help stop it. For a complete transcript, please visit: https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/youth-tobacco-use/modules/february-vital-signs-transcript-2-8-19.pdf
Edie

A modeling approach to gauging the effects of nicotine vaping product use on cessation from cigarettes: what do we know, what do we need to know?

Edie - Mié, 13/02/2019 - 11:22
Nicotine vaping product use in the US is projected to have a net positive impact on population health. Levy, David T., Zhe Yuan, Yameng Li, Anthony J. Alberg, and K. Michael Cummings. "A modeling approach to gauging the effects of nicotine vaping product use on cessation from cigarettes: what do we...
A modeling approach to gauging the effects of nicotinevaping product use on ces…
Livia

Association of Electronic Cigarette Use with Subsequent Initiation of Tobacco Cigarettes in US Youths

Shared by Livia - Mar, 12/02/2019 - 01:41
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Berry KM, Fetterman JL, Benjamin EJ, et al. Association of Electronic Cigarette Use With Subsequent Initiation of Tobacco Cigarettes in US Youths. JAMA Netw Open. 2019;2(2):e187794. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.7794

Question: Is electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use among tobacco-naive youths associated with subsequent risk of cigarette initiation?

Findings: In this cohort study using data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study (2013-2016), youths whose first tobacco product was an e-cigarette were more likely to initiate cigarettes over 2 years of follow-up. At the population level, approximately 180 000 new ever smokers and 45 000 current smokers in the United States over 2 years may have started smoking combustible cigarettes after initiating e-cigarette use.

Meaning: Tobacco...

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Livia

Porcentaje de estudiantes de fumadores actuales de tabaco recibir ayuda o Consejo para dejar de fumar: estudio pruebas de tabaco mundial de jóvenes

Shared by Livia - Vie, 08/02/2019 - 13:29
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Arrazola, R. A., Seidenberg, A. B., Ahluwalia, I. B. (2019). Percentage of current tobacco smoking students receiving help or advice to quit: Evidence from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey, 56 countries, 2012–2015. Tobacco Prevention & Cessation, 5(January), 5. https://doi.org/10.18332/tpc/102994

ABSTRACT:

Introduction:
We assessed self-reported receipt of help or advice to stop smoking among current tobacco smoking students enrolled in school.

Methods:
Using cross-sectional data collected between 2012–2015 from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS), and representing the latest year for which data were collected, we calculated prevalence of receipt of help or advice to stop smoking among current tobacco smoking students aged 13–15 years from 56 countries. The sources of help or advice assessed in the GYTS were: 1) from a program or professional, 2) from a friend, and 3) from a...

Livia

Dispelling Myths about Smoking, Mental Health/Substance Use Disorders and Recovery

Shared by Livia - Jue, 07/02/2019 - 17:30
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Adults with mental illness, including substance use disorder (SUD,) are at risk of dying 25 years earlier than the general population. The major contributor to this premature mortality is smoking-related disease. While cigarette smoking has...

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Livia

Mental Health Professionals’ Views on Smoke-Free Policy

Shared by Livia - Jue, 07/02/2019 - 17:28
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Smith, McNeill, Kock, Shahab. "Exploring mental health professionals’ practice in relation to smoke-free policy within a mental health trust: a qualitative study using the COM-B model of behaviour",BMC Psychiatry (2019): 19:54

The prevalence of smoking within the general population is in decline. However, the number of people with mental health issues who smoke remains high.

A recent study has examined mental health care practitioners approach to addressing smoking with their patients and the barriers they come up against.

36 MHP participated in focus groups that looked at the experiences of addressing smoking with mental health patients.

The following themes were identified on analysis:

  • Psychological capability: Despite most of the MHP completing mandatory many MHPs could not remember the content of...
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Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Productos de tabaco por calentamiento: Consideraciones de tipo sanitario y legal

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - Mié, 06/02/2019 - 17:12
Recientemente han surgido en el mercado nuevos productos de tabaco sin combustión, que se calientan a elevada temperatura, y que presentan algunas características diferentes de los cigarrillos convencionales. Estos productos de tabaco calentado o por calentamiento (“heated tobacco products” o “heat...
Informe_productos_tabaco_calentado 2019.pdf
Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Twelve Million Smokers Look Online for Smoking Cessation Help Annually

Shared by Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - Sáb, 26/01/2019 - 03:18
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Amanda L Graham, Michael S Amato; Twelve Million Smokers Look Online for Smoking Cessation Help Annually: Health Information National Trends Survey Data, 2005–2017, Nicotine & Tobacco Research, , nty043, https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/nty043

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Background

This study quantified the potential reach of Internet smoking cessation interventions to support calculations of potential population impact (reach × effectiveness). Using a nationally representative survey, we calculated the number and proportion of adult smokers that look for cessation assistance online each year.

Methods

Five waves (2005, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) of the National Cancer Institute’s Health Information National Trends Survey were examined. The survey asked US adults whether they ever go online to use the Internet, World Wide Web, or email and had...

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Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

recording of webinar 'The Electronic Cigarette Dragon: The Public Health Concern That Became a Criminal Justice Challenge'

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - Mié, 23/01/2019 - 20:14
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) have become popular for those seeking an alternative to smoking traditional tobacco products. The lack of regulation made e-cigs easy to access and has shepherded their nefarious use. The use of the e-cigs as an illicit drug delivery device is touted on websites, blogs...
Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Print-based self-help interventions for smoking cessation

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - Sáb, 12/01/2019 - 03:40
Authors' conclusions Standard, print‐based self‐help materials increase quit rates compared to no intervention, but the effect is likely to be small. We did not find evidence that they have an additional benefit when used alongside other interventions such as advice from a healthcare professional...
Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Efectividad de la prevención del consumo de tabaco en el ámbito escolar

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - Jue, 10/01/2019 - 22:37

En BMJ Open, Roger Thomas y un equipo de investigadores publicaron un estudio que evalua la efectividad de intervenciones de prevención escolar, dirigidas a mantener a niñas y niños como no-fumadores. Para esto realizaron una revisión sistemática y meta-análisis de programas preventivos que involucraron a 143,495 participantes. Solamente se incluyeron programas que dieran seguimiento a los participantes cuando menos por seis meses. Se excluyeron ensayos clínicos que no evaluaron la línea base de personas que fuman o que solamente reportaban actitudes frente al consumo de tabaco o conocimiento...

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Tobacco Retail Licensing and Youth Product Use

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - Mié, 09/01/2019 - 14:32

According to a study recently published by Roee Astor and colleagues (Astor RL, Urman R, Barrington-Trimis JL, et al. Tobacco Retail Licensing and Youth Product Use. Pediatrics. 2019;143(2):e20173536), in the medical journal Pediatrics, teenagers who live in communities with strong tobacco vendor licensing requirements could be at lower risk of tobacco use.

 

The researchers used the American Lung Association Reducing Sales of Tobacco Products to Youth scale to grade the jurisdictions where the study participants live. The highest ratings correspond to where all retailers pay annual...

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

La legislación frente al tabaco en España: Logros y carencias

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - Mar, 08/01/2019 - 16:18
Un análisis retrospectivo de 30 años de normativa española, y un llamamiento a perseverar en las políticas públicas en relación con la primera causa evitable de enfermedad en España.
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Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Intervenciones de consejería para la cesación de la adicción al tabaco: revisión sistemática de la literatura

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - Sáb, 05/01/2019 - 05:34
La consejería breve por personal médico y la intensiva por profesionales capacitados (individual, grupal, telefónica proactiva) son eficaces en ayudar a las personas a dejar de fumar.
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Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

Public Health Consequences of E Cigarettes

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - Jue, 03/01/2019 - 22:13
Millions of Americans use e-cigarettes, even as rates of smoking combustible tobacco cigarettes continue to decline among youth and adults. In 2016 youth e-cigarette use was substantially higher than cigarette smoking or use of any other tobacco product. The Center for Tobacco Products of the Food...
Livia

Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Among Nonsmokers

Shared by Livia - Jue, 03/01/2019 - 22:02
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Tsai J, Homa DM, Gentzke AS, et al. Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Among Nonsmokers — United States, 1988–2014. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2018;67:1342–1346. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6748a3

Summary

What is already known about this topic?

Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke can cause sudden infant death syndrome, respiratory infections, ear infections, and asthma attacks in infants and children, and coronary heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer in adult nonsmokers.

What is added by this report?

Although secondhand smoke exposure among U.S. nonsmokers declined from 87.5% to 25.2% during 1988–2014, one in four nonsmokers, including 14 million children, were exposed to secondhand smoke during 2013–2014.

What are the implications for public health practice?

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Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

World No Tobacco Day 2019

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - Mié, 02/01/2019 - 16:58
World No Tobacco Day 2019 The focus of World No Tobacco Day 2019 is on "tobacco and lung health." The campaign will increase awareness on: the negative impact that tobacco has on people’s lung health, from cancer to chronic respiratory disease, the fundamental role lungs play for the health and well...
Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez

en Cataluña, el tabaco causa 3% del total de bajas laborales temporales

Jose Luis Vazquez Martinez - Mié, 02/01/2019 - 16:27

Este estudio muestra que en Cataluña, tres de cada cien bajas por enfermedad no profesional registradas entre los años 2007 y 2016 son atribuibles al tabaco. Se trata de trabajadores que piden la baja durante más de cinco días por problemas respiratorios, cardiovasculares y tumores directamente relacionados con fumar tabaco.

Aunque en España el número de personas que fuman va descendiendo, la proporción de bajas temporales atribuibles directamente al tabaco sigue aumentando. La perspectiva de género también debe tomarse en cuenta, ya que hay mayor proporción de enfermedades y consecuencias...

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