Associations between nicotine vaping uptake and cigarette smoking cessation vary by smokers' plans to quit: longitudinal findings from the International Tobacco Control Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Most population studies that evaluate the relationship between nicotine vaping and cigarette cessation focus on limited segments of the smoker population. We evaluated vaping uptake and smoking cessation considering differences in smokers' plans to quit.

Design

Longitudinal International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys were conducted in 2016, 2018 and 2020.

Setting

This study was conducted in the United States, Canada, England and Australia.

Participants

Participants of this study were adult daily cigarette smokers who had not vaped in the past 6 months at baseline and had participated in two or more consecutive waves of the ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys (n = 2815).

Measurements

Plans to qui

SUBMITTER: Kasza KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9812858 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature