Cigarette Smoking and Risk Perceptions During the COVID-19 Pandemic Reported by Recently Hospitalized Participants in a Smoking Cessation Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cigarette smoking is a risk factor for severe COVID-19 disease. Understanding smokers' responses to the pandemic will help assess its public health impact and inform future public health and provider messages to smokers.

Objective

To assess risk perceptions and change in tobacco use among current and former smokers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design

Cross-sectional survey conducted in May-July 2020 (55% response rate) PARTICIPANTS: 694 current and former daily smokers (mean age 53, 40% male, 78% white) who had been hospitalized pre-COVID-19 and enrolled into a smoking cessation clinical trial at hospitals in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.

Main measures

Perceived risk of COVID-19 due to tobacco use; changes in tobacco consumption and in

SUBMITTER: Rigotti NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8183588 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature