2018 ACC expert consensus decision pathway on tobacco cessation treatment: a report of the American College of Cardiology Task Force on Clinical Expert …

RS Barua, NA Rigotti, NL Benowitz… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
Tobacco use, especially cigarette smoking, is a major risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity
and mortality and is the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. Comprehensive …

The National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) Waves 1 and 2: review and summary of findings

DS Hasin, BF Grant - Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2015 - Springer
Purpose The NESARC, a “third-generation” psychiatric epidemiologic survey that integrated
detailed measures of alcohol and drug use and problems has been the data source for …

Smoking cessation, but not reduction, reduces cardiovascular disease incidence

SM Jeong, KH Jeon, DW Shin, K Han… - European heart …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Aims The aim of this study was to assess the association of smoking cessation and reduction
with risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Methods and results A total of 897 975 current …

The unique contribution of e-cigarettes for tobacco harm reduction in supporting smoking relapse prevention

C Notley, E Ward, L Dawkins, R Holland - Harm reduction journal, 2018 - Springer
Background We have little understanding of how vapers use e-cigarettes beyond cessation.
E-cigarettes may have a role to play in reducing the health-related harms of tobacco …

Lung function decline in former smokers and low-intensity current smokers: a secondary data analysis of the NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study

EC Oelsner, PP Balte, SP Bhatt… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Former smokers now outnumber current smokers in many developed countries,
and current smokers are smoking fewer cigarettes per day. Some data suggest that lung …

America's opioid crisis: the need for an integrated public health approach

C Blanco, TRA Wiley, JJ Lloyd, MF Lopez… - Translational …, 2020 - nature.com
Continued increases in overdose deaths and recent declines in life expectancy call for need
to adopt comprehensive public health approaches to the United States opioid crisis and to …

[HTML][HTML] Risk of smoking relapse with the use of electronic cigarettes: a systematic review with meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

LA Barufaldi, RL Guerra, R Rita de Cássia… - Tobacco prevention & …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
METHODS MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycInfo and LILACS were searched without restriction to
language or date of publication. Longitudinal observational studies evaluating the …

Time and age trends in smoking cessation in Europe

G Pesce, A Marcon, L Calciano, JL Perret… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Smoking is the main risk factor for most of the leading causes of death.
Cessation is the single most important step that smokers can take to improve their health …

ASMBS position statement on preoperative patient optimization before metabolic and bariatric surgery

J Carter, J Chang, TJ Birriel, F Moustarah… - Surgery for Obesity and …, 2021 - soard.org
The following position statement is issued by the American Society for Metabolic and
Bariatric Surgery in response to inquiries made to the society by patients, physicians, society …

Probability and predictors of treatment-seeking for substance use disorders in the US

C Blanco, M Iza, JM Rodríguez-Fernández… - Drug and alcohol …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Little is known about to what extent treatment-seeking behavior varies across
individuals with alcohol abuse, alcohol dependence, drug abuse, and drug dependence …