A pre-post pilot study of electronic cigarettes to reduce smoking in people with severe mental illness

everhopeful · May 1, 2020, 12:17pm

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A pre-post pilot study of electronic cigarettes to reduce smoking in people with severe mental illness.

LM Hickling, R Perez-Iglesias, A McNeill, L Dawkins, J Moxham, T Ruffell, KV Sendt and P McGuire, Psychological medicine, 2019 04

Smoking is the largest single contributor to poor physical health and increased mortality in people with serious mental illnesses. The aim of the study was to investigate the utility of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) as a harm reduction intervention in this population.Fifty tobacco smokers with a psychotic disorder were enrolled onto a 24-week pilot study (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02212041) investigating the efficacy of a 6-week free e-cigarette intervention to reduce smoking. Cigarette and e-cigarette use was self-reported at weekly visits, and verified using carbon monoxide tests. Psychopathology, e-cigarette acceptability and adverse effects were assessed using standardised scales.There was a significant (⩾50%) reduction in cigarettes consumed per day between baseline and week 6 [F(2.596,116.800) = 25.878, p < 0.001], and e-cigarette use was stable during this period [F(2.932,46.504) = 2.023, p = 0.115]. These changes were verified by significant carbon monoxide reductions between these time points [F(3.335,126.633) = 5.063, p = 0.002].The provision of e-cigarettes is a potentially useful harm reduction intervention in smokers with a psychotic disorder.

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