Increasing Cannabis Use Is Associated With Poorer Cigarette Smoking Cessation Outcomes: Findings From the ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys, 2016-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Concurrent use of tobacco and cannabis may impede successful cigarette smoking cessation. This study examined whether changes in cannabis use frequency were associated with smoking cessation.

Aims and methods

Nationally representative samples of adult cigarette smokers from Canada (n = 1455), the United States (n = 892), England (n = 1416), and Australia (n = 717) were surveyed in 2016 and 2018. In each year, smokers reported how often they used cannabis in the previous 12 months. Reports were compared to determine whether cannabis use increased, remained unchanged, or decreased. Smoking cessation outcomes, measured in 2018, were (1) any attempt to quit in the previous year, (2) currently quit, and (3) currently quit for at least 6 months. Weighted multivariable

SUBMITTER: Driezen P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8666121 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature