Evaluation of an individually tailored smoking-cessation intervention for patients with rheumatoid arthritis in an outpatient clinic
Authors' conclusion
A smoking-cessation intervention including behavioural change support with or without pharmacotherapy can be helpful for a substantial number of RA patients. Anxiety is associated with lower smoking-cessation success rates.
Study context
- Population
- Current smokers with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in rheumatology outpatient care; data from the Swedish Rheumatology Quality Register
- Participants
- 99 smokers
- Outcome
- Proportion who reported having quit smoking with self-reported 7 day smoking abstinence
- Follow-up
- Month 24
Methodological detailsopen, single-group
- Open
- Single-group
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Quit smoking (self-reported 7 day abstinence) · 24 months
Patients who had quit smoking at 24 months
21%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Anxiety at baseline: quit vs still smoking at 24 months
P = 0.02
Quit smoking at earlier time points · 6, 12, and 18 months
- Quit at 6 months
- 12%
- Quit at 12 months
- 12%
- Quit at 18 months
- 14%
Cigarettes per day, median, in patients still smoking at 24 months
- Median cigarettes per day reduced from 12 to 6
- P ≤ 0.001
Original publication
Evaluation of an individually tailored smoking-cessation intervention for patients with rheumatoid arthritis in an outpatient clinic. Scand J Rheumatol. Published 23 February 2023. doi:10.
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