Cost-effectiveness of non-communicable disease prevention in Southeast Asia: a scoping review by Thi-Phuong-Lan Nguyen, M. Rifqi Rokhman, M. Rifqi Rokhman, Imre Stiensma, Rachmadianti Sukma Hanifa, The Due Ong, Maarten J. Postma, Maarten J. Postma, Maarten J. Postma, Jurjen van der Schans, Jurjen van der Schans, Jurjen van der Schans

“…The interventions ranged from screening and targeting specific groups for T2DM and CVDs to smoking cessation programs, discouragement of smoking or unhealthy diet through taxation, or health education. …”
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Prevalence of smoking among employees of a university hospital Prevalencia del tabaquismo en funcionarios de un hospital universitario Prevalência do tabagismo em funcionários de u... by Isabel Cristina Echer, Ana Paula Almeida Corrêa, Amália de Fátima Lucena, Stephani Amanda Lukasewicz Ferreira, Marli Maria Knorst

“…Thus, taking into account the motivation of smokers to stop smoking, this is an appropriate time for health education and specific support to employees in the process of smoking cessation.<br>Estudio transversal con objetivo de identificar a prevalencia del tabaquismo en funcionarios de un hospital universitario del sur de Brasil. …”
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Additive effects of adjunctive app-based interventions for mental disorders - A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials by Lukas M. Fuhrmann, Kiona K. Weisel, Mathias Harrer, Jennifer K. Kulke, Harald Baumeister, Pim Cuijpers, David D. Ebert, Matthias Berking

“…We found additive effects on symptoms of depression (g = 0.17; 95 % CI 0.02 to 0.33; k = 7 comparisons), anxiety (g = 0.80; 95 % CI 0.06 to 1.54; k = 3), mania (g = 0.2; 95 % CI 0.02 to 0.38; k = 4), smoking cessation (g = 0.43; 95 % CI 0.29 to 0.58; k = 10), and alcohol use (g = 0.23; 95 % CI 0.08 to 0.39; k = 7). …”
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Hábitos tabágicos em alunos do 6.º ano de Medicina e medidas anti-tabágicas Smoking habits of sixth year medical students and anti-smoking measures in Portugal by André Borges, Filipa Marques, José Lima, Luís Costa, Patrícia Gonçalves, Rui Fernandes, Nídia Gonçalves

“…Only 34.90% of the students judged smoking cessation to be sufficiently taught in their curricula. …”
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Secondary Prevention and Quality of Life of Patients with Stable Coronary Heart Disease by E. D. Zharkova, Yu. V. Lukina, N. P. Kutishenko, E. T. Huseynova, N. P. Zolotareva, S. Yu. Martsevich, O. M. Drapkina

“…A healthy lifestyle (regular physical activity and smoking cessation) was achieved in 20.4% after 12 months of follow-up, the target level of LDL-c ˂ 1.8 mmol/L was achieved in 44.5% of patients, and the target blood pressure was achieved in 74,6%. …”
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Active Smoking Before Liver Transplantation in Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder: Risk Factors and Outcomes by Ana Isabel López-Lazcano, Antoni Gual, Jordi Colmenero, Elsa Caballería, Anna Lligoña, Miquel Navasa, Gonzalo Crespo, Eva López, Hugo López-Pelayo

“…Quitting smoking before transplantation improved survival. Evidence based smoking cessation interventions should be offered before and after LT.…”
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The Association Between Smartphone App–Based Self-monitoring of Hypertension-Related Behaviors and Reductions in High Blood Pressure: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Aikaterini Kassavou, Michael Wang, Venus Mirzaei, Sonia Shpendi, Rana Hasan

“…The review found the intervention had a small effect on supporting improvements in healthy diet by changing habits related to high sodium food (SMD –0.44, 95% CI –0.79 to –0.08) and a trend, although insignificant, toward supporting smoking cessation, low alcohol consumption, and better physical activity behaviors. …”
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The Long-Term Effect of Smoking on 10 Years’ Survival and Success of Dental Implants: A Prospective Analysis of 453 Implants in a Non-University Setting by Simon Windael, Stijn Vervaeke, Stefanie De Buyser, Hugo De Bruyn, Bruno Collaert

“…The overall bone loss over time was significantly higher in smoking patients, which might be suggestive for a higher peri-implantitis risk. Hence, smoking cessation should be advised and maintained after implant placement from the perspective of peri-implant disease prevention.…”
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A Multimethod Evaluation of Tobacco Treatment Trial Recruitment Messages for Current Smokers Recently Diagnosed With Cancer: Pilot Factorial Randomized Controlled Trial by Jordan M Neil, Christian Senecal, Lauren Ballini, Yuchiao Chang, Brett Goshe, Efren Flores, Jamie S Ostroff, Elyse R Park

“…Participants who received the proximal risks of continued smoking frame were significantly more likely to seek more information about participating (mean distal 4.83, SD 1.61 vs mean proximal 5.55, SD 1.15; P=.04), and those who received the losses of not participating frame reported significantly improved perceptions of smoking cessation research (mean gain 3.98, SD 0.83 vs mean loss 4.38, SD 0.78; P=.01). …”
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Attributable risk of all-cause mortality in hypertensive adults based on disease risk prediction model: A Chinese cohort study by Weiwei Sun, Yanhong Huo, Qingqing Liu, Andrew C. Ahn, Jingwei Zhou, Ruichao Yu, Zhenjie Chen, Yaoxian Wang, Hongfang Liu

“…It also suggests that earlier smoking cessation may be important for hypertensive patients.…”
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Meta-analysis of up to 622,409 individuals identifies 40 novel smoking behaviour associated genetic loci by Erzurumluoglu, AM, Liu, M, Jackson, VE, Barnes, DR, Datta, G, Melbourne, CA, Young, R, Batini, C, Surendran, P, Jiang, T, Adnan, SD, Afaq, S, Agrawal, A, Altmaier, E, Antoniou, AC, Asselbergs, FW, Baumbach, C, Bierut, L, Bertelsen, S, Boehnke, M, Bots, ML, Brazel, DM, Chambers, JC, Chang-Claude, J, Chen, C, Corley, J, Chou, Y-L, David, SP, de Boer, RA, de Leeuw, CA, Dennis, JG, Dominiczak, AF, Dunning, AM, Easton, DF, Eaton, C, Elliott, P, Evangelou, E, Faul, JD, Foroud, T, Goate, A, Gong, J, Grabe, HJ, Haessler, J, Haiman, C, Hallmans, G, Hammerschlag, AR, Harris, SE, Hattersley, A, Heath, A, Hsu, C, Iacono, WG, Kanoni, S, Kapoor, M, Kaprio, J, Kardia, SL, Karpe, F, Kontto, J, Kooner, JS, Kooperberg, C, Kuulasmaa, K, Laakso, M, Lai, D, Langenberg, C, Le, N, Lettre, G, Loukola, A, Luan, J, Madden, PAF, Mangino, M, Marioni, RE, Marouli, E, Marten, J, Martin, NG, McGue, M, Michailidou, K, Mihailov, E, Moayyeri, A, Moitry, M, Müller-Nurasyid, M, Naheed, A, Nauck, M, Neville, MJ, Nielsen, SF, North, K, Perola, M, Pharoah, PDP, Pistis, G, Polderman, TJ, Posthuma, D, Poulter, N, Qaiser, B, Rasheed, A, Reiner, A, Renström, F, Rice, J, Rohde, R, Rolandsson, O, Samani, NJ, Samuel, M, Schlessinger, D, Scholte, SH, Scott, RA, Sever, P, Shao, Y, Shrine, N, Smith, JA, Starr, JM, Stirrups, K, Stram, D, Stringham, HM, Tachmazidou, I, Tardif, J-C, Thompson, DJ, Tindle, HA, Tragante, V, Trompet, S, Turcot, V, Tyrrell, J, Vaartjes, I, van der Leij, AR, van der Meer, P, Varga, TV, Verweij, N, Völzke, H, Wareham, NJ, Warren, HR, Weir, DR, Weiss, S, Wetherill, L, Yaghootkar, H, Yavas, E, Jiang, Y, Chen, F, Zhan, X, Zhang, W, Zhao, W, Zhao, W, Zhou, K, Amouyel, P, Blankenberg, S, Caulfield, MJ, Chowdhury, R, Cucca, F, Deary, IJ, Deloukas, P, Di Angelantonio, E, Ferrario, M, Ferrières, J, Franks, PW, Frayling, TM, Frossard, P, Hall, IP, Hayward, C, Jansson, J-H, Jukema, JW, Kee, F, Männistö, S, Metspalu, A, Munroe, PB, Nordestgaard, BG, Palmer, CNA, Salomaa, V, Sattar, N, Spector, T, Strachan, DP, Understanding Society Scientific Group, EPIC-CVD, GSCAN, Consortium for Genetics of Smoking Behaviour, CHD Exome+ consortium, van der Harst, P, Zeggini, E, Saleheen, D, Butterworth, AS, Wain, LV, Abecasis, GR, Danesh, J, Tobin, MD, Vrieze, S, Liu, DJ, Howson, JMM

“…We tested up to 235,116 single nucleotide variants (SNVs) on the exome-array for association with smoking initiation, cigarettes per day, pack-years, and smoking cessation in a fixed effects meta-analysis of up to 61 studies (up to 346,813 participants). …”

Equity effects of parenting interventions for child conduct problems: a pan-European individual participant data meta-analysis by Gardner, F, Leijten, P, Harris, V, Mann, J, Hutchings, J, Beecham, J, Bonin, E-M, Berry, V, McGilloway, S, Gaspar, M, Sebra-Santos, MJ, Orobio De Castro, B, Menting, A, Williams, M, Axberg, U, Morch, W-T, Scott, S, Landau, S

“…Some behavioural interventions (eg, smoking cessation programmes), although beneficial overall, can widen inequality gaps. …”

Respiratory tract infections and risk factors for infection in a cohort of 330 patients with axial spondyloarthritis or psoriatic arthritis by Natalie Frede, Eva Rieger, Raquel Lorenzetti, Alexandra Nieters, Ana C. Venhoff, Carolin Hentze, Marcus von Deimling, Nora Bartholomä, Jens Thiel, Jens Thiel, Reinhard E. Voll, Nils Venhoff

“…Hypogammaglobulinemia (IgG&lt;7g/l) was rare (3.4%) in this SpA cohort despite continuous immunomodulatory treatment.Awareness of these risk factors will assist physicians to identify patients with an increased infection risk, who will benefit from additional preventive measures, such as vaccination and smoking cessation or adjustment of DMARD therapy.…”
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A Motivational Interviewing Chatbot With Generative Reflections for Increasing Readiness to Quit Smoking: Iterative Development Study by Andrew Brown, Ash Tanuj Kumar, Osnat Melamed, Imtihan Ahmed, Yu Hao Wang, Arnaud Deza, Marc Morcos, Leon Zhu, Marta Maslej, Nadia Minian, Vidya Sujaya, Jodi Wolff, Olivia Doggett, Mathew Iantorno, Matt Ratto, Peter Selby, Jonathan Rose

“…Participants’ readiness to quit was measured before the conversation and 1 week later using an 11-point scale that measured 3 attributes related to smoking cessation: readiness, confidence, and importance. …”
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Argentine consensus recommendations for lung cancer screening programmes: a RAND/UCLA-modified Delphi study by Claudio Martin, Gonzalo Recondo, Javier Roberti, Ezequiel García Elorrio, Mònica Castro, Diego Kaen, Iris Boyeras, Mariana Seijo, Verónica Suárez, José Luis Morero, Ana Karina Patané, Sebastián Lamot, Ricardo Re, Artemio García, Patricia Vujacich, Alejandro Videla, Alfonso Fernández-Pazos, Gustavo Lyons, Hugo Paladini, Sergio Benítez, Sebastián Defranchi, Lisandro Paganini, Silvia Quadrelli, Sebastián Rossini, Edgardo Sobrino

“…Screening will be considered positive when finding a solid nodule ≥6 mm in diameter (or ≥113 mm3) on baseline LDCT and 4 mm in diameter if a new nodule is identified on annual screening. A smoking cessation programme should be offered, and cardiovascular risk assessment should be performed. …”
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Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of tobacco and alcohol use in four sub-Saharan African countries: a cross-sectional study of middle-aged adults by Palwende Romuald Boua, Cassandra Claire Soo, Cornelius Debpuur, Innocent Maposa, Shai Nkoana, Shukri F. Mohamed, Solomon Choma, Abraham Oduro, Gershim Asiki, Lisa K. Micklesfield, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Hermann Sorgho, Sumaya Mall, Michèle Ramsay, as members of AWI-Gen and the H3Africa Consortium

“…Current smoking was associated with alcohol consumption in men, and smoking cessation in men was associated with being a former drinker, having higher socio-economic status, and if married or cohabiting. …”
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Effectiveness of legislative actions against tobacco smoking regarding the reduction of in-hospital morbidity of angina pectoris and myocardial infarction in Russia as a whole and... by M. G. Gambaryan, A. V. Kontsevaya, T. A. Agishina, O. M. Drapkina

“…Also, hospital admission rates for angina and MI were associated with the changes in smoking cessation prevalence in 2013-2018 in the regions (β=-0,345; 95% CI, -0,67−-0,02 p=0,041) and smoking prevalence in 2019 (β=2,964; 95% CI, 1,28-5,92, p=0,049), respectively.Conclusion. …”
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SPLF/SMFU/SRLF/SFAR/SFCTCV Guidelines for the management of patients with primary spontaneous pneumothorax by Stéphane Jouneau, Jean-Damien Ricard, Agathe Seguin-Givelet, Naïke Bigé, Damien Contou, Thibaut Desmettre, Delphine Hugenschmitt, Sabrina Kepka, Karinne Le Gloan, Bernard Maitre, Gilles Mangiapan, Sylvain Marchand-Adam, Alessio Mariolo, Tania Marx, Jonathan Messika, Elise Noël-Savina, Mathieu Oberlin, Ludovic Palmier, Morgan Perruez, Claire Pichereau, Nicolas Roche, Marc Garnier, Mikaël Martinez

“…Associated measures, including smoking cessation, are described. Conclusion These guidelines are a step towards PSP treatment and follow-up strategy optimization in France.…”
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Perfil e fatores associados ao sucesso terapêutico de tabagistas atendidos em um serviço público especializado [Profile and factors associated with successful treatment of smokers... by Sandro Rogerio dos Santos, Ana Rita de Cassia Bittencourt, Maria Helena de Castro Silva, Thaís Santos Guerra Stacciarini, Rosana Huppes Engel, Aldenora Laísa Paiva de Carvalho Cordeiro

“…ABSTRACT Objective: to profile smokers enrolled in the smoking cessation program of the Triangulo Mineiro Federal University (UFTM) in Uberaba, Minas Gerais, and to list the factors associated with successful treatment. …”
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Factors Influencing the Length of Hospital Stay Among Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Macao Population: A Retrospective Study of Inpatient Health Reco... by Li M, Cheng K, Ku K, Li J, Hu H, Ung COL

“…The use of NIV (B=0.080, 95% CI:0.022&ndash; 0.138), pulmonary rehabilitation (B=0.269, 95% CI:0.212&ndash; 0.327), two and three types of inhaled medications (B=0.109, 95% CI:0.003&ndash; 0.166, B=0.255, 95% CI:0.083&ndash; 0.237) were significantly associated with longer LOS (P&lt; 0.05).Conclusion: NIV, PR and combined inhaled medications, which are often used for AECOPD, are the main clinical therapies associated with longer LOS in Macao. Smoking cessation, early treatments of comorbidities may be crucial to avoiding AECOPD and reducing LOS and disease burden.Keywords: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Macao, length of hospital stay, blood test results, clinical therapy, inhaled medications, acute exacerbation…”
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