Importance More deaths in the US are attributed to cigarette smoking each year than to any
other preventable cause. Approximately 34 million people and an estimated 14% of adults in …

Lung disease encompasses acute, infectious processes and chronic, non-infectious
processes such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and lung cancer. People …

Tobacco smoking is highly prevalent among people living with HIV (PLWH), yet there is a
lack of data on smoking behaviours and effective treatments in this population …

Introduction Contingency management (CM) is an incentive-based approach that has
demonstrated efficacy for smoking cessation in various populations. There is an unmet need …

Background People with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) smoke at much higher rates
than the general population, resulting in higher risk for tobacco-related morbidity and …

Understood largely from a minority stress framework, sexual minorities (SM) are
hypothesized to suffer more physical and mental health burdens compared to their …

Background Lung cancer is a common cancer in people living with HIV, but the risk of
cancer in this group has not been investigated for over a decade. We investigated trends in …

Introduction People with HIV are at higher risk of lung cancer; however, there is limited
research on attitudes, barriers, and facilitators to lung cancer screening in people with HIV …

Although the smoking rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) or
hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected people was much higher than that of the general population …

Background: Persons with HIV (PWH) in the United States (US) smoke cigarettes at
approximately triple the rate of the general adult population and are less successful in their …