Profile and patterns of dual use of e-cigarettes and combustible cigarettes among Mexican adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the profile and patterns of dual uses (n=954) and exclusive cigarette users (n=2 070) and determine the correlates of more frequent e-cigarette use among dual users and their reasons for e-cigarette use.

Materials and methods

An online survey of Mexican adult smokers. Logistic models regressed dual-use (exclusive smoking vs. dual user) on sociodemographic, smoking varia-bles and substance use behaviors. We conducted censorial binomial models to estimate the correlates of frequency of e-cigarette use among dual users.

Results

Dual users were younger had higher education (AOR=2.22) and higher levels of smoking dependence (AOR=1.31), preferred cigarettes with flavor capsules (AOR=1.58) and had recently attempted to quit smoking (AOR=1.38). Marijuana

SUBMITTER: Zavala-Arciniega L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8827615 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature