Does a Recent Cancer Diagnosis Predict Smoking Cessation? An Analysis From a Large Prospective US Cohort

摘要: Purpose Quitting smoking provides important health benefits to patients with cancer. A cancer diagnosis may motivate quitting—potentially providing a teachable moment in which oncologists can encourage and assist quit—but little is known about whether recent (including of that less strongly linked smoking) associated increased quitting. Methods Cancer Prevention Study-II Nutrition Cohort participants reported status at enrollment 1992 1993 approximately biennially through 2009. Quit rates smokers diagnosed during 2- 4-year intervals were compared those not (12,182 12,538 analyses, respectively). Cancers likely cause physical limitations or symptoms could influence (cancers the lung, head neck, esophagus, any metastatic cancer) excluded. Logistic regressions calculated quit controlling for age, sex, surve...