Are population trends in high-risk alcohol consumption in smokers associated with trends in quit attempts and quit success? A time-series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Monthly changes in the prevalence of high-risk drinking and smoking in England appear to be positively correlated. This study aimed to assess how far monthly changes in high-risk drinking were specifically associated with attempts to stop smoking and the success of quit attempts.

Design

Data were used from the Alcohol and Smoking Toolkit Studies between April 2014 and June 2018. These involve monthly household face-to-face surveys of representative samples of ~1800 adults.

Setting

England.

Participants

Data were aggregated on 17 560 past-year smokers over the study period.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Autoregressive integrated moving average with exogenous input (ARIMAX) modelling was used to assess the association over time between

SUBMITTER: Beard E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7375511 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature