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Quitting behaviors and cessation assistance used among smokers with anxiety or depression: Findings among six countries of the EUREST-PLUS ITC Europe Surveys
 
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA), Athens, Greece
 
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European Network on Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP), Brussels, Belgium
 
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University of Crete (UoC), Heraklion, Greece
 
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Division of Prevention and Rehabilitation, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada
 
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Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
 
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King’s College London (KCL), London, United Kingdom
 
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Cancer Prevention Unit and WHO Collaborating Centre for Tobacco Control, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
 
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Institut Català d’Oncologia (ICO) and Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Catalonia, Spain
 
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School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
 
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Smoking or Health Hungarian Foundation (SHHF), Budapest, Hungary
 
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University of Medicine and Pharmacy ‘Grigore T. Popa’, Iasi, Romania
 
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Aer Pur Romania, Bucharest, Romania
 
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Health Promotion Foundation (HPF), Warsaw, Poland
 
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European Observatory of Health Inequalities, President Stanisław Wojciechowski State University of Applied Sciences, Kalisz, Poland
 
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University of Waterloo (UW), Waterloo, Canada
 
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Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada
 
 
Publication date: 2018-10-03
 
 
Corresponding author
Ioanna Petroulia   

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA), Athens, Greece
 
 
Tob. Induc. Dis. 2018;16(Suppl 3):A45
 
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Introduction:
The current study explores quitting behaviours and use of cessation assistance among adult tobacco users with probable anxiety or depression (PAD) and in six European (EU) Member States (MS).

Material and Methods:
The EUREST-PLUS ITC Wave 1 Europe Survey was conducted with a nationally representative cross-sectional sample of 6,011 adult cigarette smokers from six European Union (EU) Member States (MS) (Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Spain) in 2016.

Results:
Our study found that one in five smokers sampled from six EU MS had a diagnosis, treatment or positive screen for anxiety or depression, with rates of PAD varying between EU MS. Results of the multivariable logistic regression analysis showed that respondents with PAD were more likely to have made a quit attempt in the last 12 months (AOR 1.75; 95%CI 1.45-2.11), compared to respondents without PAD. Among those respondents with PAD who used support the most frequently reported quit method was prescription-based quit smoking pharmacotherapy (15.4%) followed by e-cigarettes (13.7%) and NRT (11.3%). Person-to-person behavioral support (i.e. local quit services, face-to-face advice from a doctor or other health care professional, telephone or quitline services) was reported significantly more frequently among respondents with PAD compared to those without PAD.

Conclusions:
Given both pharmacological and non-pharmacological quit smoking aids have been shown to be safe, acceptable and effective for people with and without mental illness it is important that their use be promoted among smokers with anxiety and depression alongside behavioral counseling. Our findings support the need for interventions targeting health care professionals in providing smoking cessation assistance among this population of smokers.

Acknowledgements:
EUREST-PLUS is a Horizon2020 project conducted by researchers throughout Europe from both the six participating countries as well as other institution partners within Europe and abroad. Partnering organizations include the European Network on Smoking Prevention (Belgium), Kings College London (United Kingdom), German Cancer Research Centre (Germany), University of Maastricht (The Netherlands), University of Athens (Greece), Aer Pur Romania (Romania), European Respiratory Society (Switzerland), the University of Waterloo (Canada), the Catalan Institute of Oncology (Catalonia, Spain), Smoking or Health Hungarian Foundation (Hungary), Health Promotion Foundation (Poland), University of Crete (Greece), and Kantar Public Brussels (Belgium).

Funding:
The EUREST-PLUS Project takes place with the financial support of the European Commission, Horizon 2020 HCO-6-2015 program (EUREST-PLUS: 681109; C. Vardavas) and the University of Waterloo (GT. Fong). Additional support was provided to the University of Waterloo by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FDN-148477). GT. Fong was supported by a Senior Investigator Grant from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. E. Fernández is partly supported by Ministry of Universities and Research, Government of Catalonia (2017SGR139) and by the Instituto Carlos III and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) (INT16/00211 and INT17/00103), Government of Spain.

 
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