Smoking habits, awareness and support needs for cessation among people with multiple sclerosis in Australia: findings from an online survey by Roshan das Nair, Ron Borland, Claudia H Marck, Isabelle Weld-Blundell, Lisa Grech, Sarah L White

“…Objectives To assess smoking habits, nicotine use, exposure to passive smoking, awareness of associated harms, and experiences with and preferences for smoking cessation support among people with multiple sclerosis (MS).Design Online survey, convenience sampling.Setting Community setting, Australia.Participants Adults living in Australia with probable or diagnosed MS were recruited via social media and newsletters to participate in 2020.Results Of the 284 participants in our convenience sample, 25.7% were current smokers (n=73) and 38.0% were former smokers (n=108). …”
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Acute electrocardiographic changes during smoking: an observational study by Balram Bhargava, Sandeep Singh, Ambuj Roy, Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan, Nitish Naik, Kinjal Bhatt, Akhilesh K Dubey, Sandeep Seth

“…Objective To study the temporal relationship of smoking with electrophysiological changes.Design Prospective observational study.Setting Tertiary cardiac center.Participants Male smokers with atypical chest pain were screened with a treadmill exercise test (TMT). …”
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Profil Lipid dan Kejadian Hipertensi pada Pria Perokok Berat by Yonrizal Nurdin

“…It is suggested that heavy smokers quit smoking immediately and increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables to prevent hypertension and cardiovascular disease. …”
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Electronic Cigarettes for Curbing the Tobacco-Induced Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases: Evidence Revisited with Emphasis on Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa by Jobert Richie N. Nansseu, Jean Joel R. Bigna

“…On the whole, if e-cigs were to be introduced in SSA, they should be strictly recommended to current and/or ex-smokers as a method to quit smoking or prevent relapse and never-smokers should be strongly encouraged to avoid using these devices. …”
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The Publishing Race by A.W. Misbach

“…Terry Morris, in turn, sent the letter to Fiona Snyckers. While Fiona Snyckers send me a response, it was not addressed as an open letter. …”
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The Impact of Smoking on Clinical Outcomes after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Women Compared to Men by Seyyed Saeed Mohammadi, Mohammad Javad Zibaeenezhad, Mehrab Sayadi, Soorena Khorshidi, Ehsan Hadiyan, Iman Razeghian-Jahromi

“…Of the 1799 patients, 61% were men and 47.08% had history of smoking (75% of the smokers were men). At the time of index PCI, smokers were significantly younger than nonsmokers. …”
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Cross-sectional online survey of the impact of new tobacco health warnings in Colombia by Sally Adams, Arturo Clavijo, Ricardo Tamayo, Olivia Maynard

“…Objectives This study aimed to explore the impact of a new set of six pictorial warnings introduced in 2018.Design and setting Using a cross-sectional design, we examined awareness of the new warnings among Colombian smokers across two time points of data collection.Participants Adult smokers (≥18 years of age), defined as having smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and currently smoking at least one cigarette per week participated at time 1, prior to the introduction of the new health warnings in Colombia in 2018 (n=1985, 72% male), and at time 2, 12 months post introduction (n=1572, 69% male).Primary outcomes At each time, we examined smokers’ responses to warnings on packs (negative affect, thinking about warning messages and cognitive elaboration), attitudes toward smoking (perceived likelihood and severity of harm, self-efficacy, response efficacy and quit intentions), knowledge of the health risks of smoking and responses to the new warnings (negative affect, believability, thinking about the harms, reactance and perceived message effectiveness).Results Awareness of the warnings was low, with only 59% of smokers reporting having seen them at time 2. …”
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Dose-response risks of all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular disease mortality according to sex-specific cigarette smoking pack-year quantiles by Jieun Hwang, Suyoung Jo, Heewon Kang, Eunsil Cheon, Sung-il Cho

“…Results A significant increase in the risk of all-cause mortality was observed for current smokers (men HR=1.90; 95% CI: 1.69–2.14; women HR=2.25; 95% CI: 1.68–2.99) and former smokers (men HR=1.31; 95% CI: 1.17–1.47; women HR=2.35; 95% CI: 1.63–3.39) compared with that for those who had never smoked. …”
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Resistin as a Prooxidant Factor and Predictor of Endothelium Damage in Patients with Mild Acute Pancreatitis Exposed to Tobacco Smoke Xenobiotics by Milena Ściskalska, Grzegorz Marek, Zygmunt Grzebieniak, Halina Milnerowicz

“…An increased IL-6 concentration in healthy smokers compared to nonsmokers and AP patients compared to controls was shown. …”
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Obesity Might Be a Predictor of Weight Reduction after Smoking Cessation by Charlotta Pisinger, Helle Øster Nielsen, Caroline Kuhlmann, Susanne Rosthøj

“…Approximately one in five ex-smokers reduces or maintains weight after smoking cessation but little is known about who succeeds to avoid weight gain. …”
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GSTP1, GSTM1 and GSTT1 genetic polymorphisms and total serum GST concentration in stable male COPD by Žuntar Irena, Petlevski Roberta, Dodig Slavica, Popović-Grle Sanja

“…GSTP1, GSTM1 and GSTT1 genotypes were determined by DNA methods and GST activity spectrophotometrically in older male Caucasian Croats (non- -smokers, ex-smokers, and smokers) with stable COPD (n = 30) and sex/age matched controls (n = 60). …”
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Smoking and Pulmonary Fibrosis: Novel Insights by Katerina D. Samara, George Margaritopoulos, Athol U. Wells, Nikolaos M. Siafakas, Katerina M. Antoniou

“…Recently the negative influence of cigarette smoking on IPF outcome was highlighted, as non-smokers exhibit a better survival than ex-smokers and combined current- and ex-smokers. …”
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Long-term smoking contributes to aging frailty and inflammatory response by Huijin Hou, Yidi Chai, Ting Zhang, Yue Liang, Lan Huang, Xu Cao, Shufang Liang

“…Among human samples, 69.2% of elderly smokers exhibited a frailty phenotype, compared to just 15.4% of non-smokers. …”
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Impact of smoking cessation, coffee and bread consumption on the intestinal microbial composition among Saudis: A cross-sectional study. by Steve Harakeh, Emmanouil Angelakis, Timokratis Karamitros, Dipankar Bachar, Suhad Bahijri, Ghada Ajabnoor, Sulaiman M Alfadul, Suha A Farraj, Turki Al Amri, Ahmed Al-Hejin, Abdalla Ahmed, Ahmed A Mirza, Raoult Didier, Esam I Azhar

“…Similarly, the gut microbiota of smokers was also enriched by B. thetaiotaomicron and Lactobacillus amylovorus. …”
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Prevalence of Sleep-related Breathing Disorders in Children from 6 to 11 Years Old by Alexander Torres Molina

“…Clinical manifestations during the day and night compatible with sleep-related breathing disorders are more common in habitual snorers<strong></strong></p>…”
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NoFumo+: Mobile Health App to Quit Smoking Using Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy by Patricia García-Pazo, Joana Fornés-Vives, Albert Sesé Abad

“…The validation was carried out in two phases; the first in the laboratory by a group of experts in information and communication technologies and CBTs (n = 15) and the second, a field study with smokers (n = 10). The standards for the development of mHealth recommended by the Andalusian Healthcare Quality Agency and the App quality evaluation guidelines of the Catalonian ICT Foundation for Social Health were used as assessment protocols by the experts’ panel and the smokers’ group, respectively. …”
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Loose cigarette purchase and adolescent smoking in Indonesia: a mixed-methods study by Vid Adrison, Dian Kusuma, Gea Melinda, Fariza Zahra Kamilah, Syifa Rizki Amelia, Sofwatun Nida

“…Our qualitative findings further reported that affordability and accessibility were the main reasons that encouraged current student smokers to opt for loose cigarettes over other types of cigarettes (packs, cartons or rolled tobacco). …”
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Oral hygiene and smoking habit as risk factors of periodontal disease. by Maricela Seijo Machado, Marta M. Bosch Pons, Esther M. Castillo Betancourt, Sahily Espino Otero, Alicia Quiñones Betancourt

“…<strong>Method:</strong> Descriptive, cross-sectional, epidemiological study including 95 smokers from Palmira municipality; January-November, 2007. …”
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The Lung Health Study by J Manfreda, NR Anthonisen, The Lung Health Study Research Group

“…OBJECTIVE: To determine whether smoking intervention and use of an inhaled bronchodilator can slow the rate of decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) in smokers with mild obstructive pulmonary disease.…”
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Cigarette Smoking Is Associated with Prolongation of the QTc Interval Duration in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Petros Thomakos, Stavros Liatis, Stavroula Kalopita, Ioannis Vlahodimitris, Chryssoula Stathi, Nicholas Katsilambros, Nicholas Tentolouris, Konstantinos Makrilakis

“…The mean QTc interval was measured from the 24-hour ECG recordings. Results. Smokers had lower body mass index (BMI) and exhibited higher 24-hour mean heart rate. …”
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