Current cannabis use and smoking cessation among treatment seeking combustible smokers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Combustible tobacco smoking and cannabis use frequently occur together, and the use of both substances is associated with overall greater severity of tobacco and cannabis related problems. Observational work has found that cannabis use is associated with tobacco cessation failure, but research directly testing the longitudinal associations of cannabis use on tobacco cessation during smoking cessation treatment is lacking. The current study examined the impact of current cannabis use on combustible tobacco cessation outcomes.

Methods

207 daily combustible tobacco smokers (M_age = 38.24 years, SD = 14.84, 48.1 % male) were enrolled in a randomized controlled smoking cessation trial. Survival analyses and multi-level modeling were used to assess lapse and

SUBMITTER: Rogers AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8802811 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature