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Abstract
We investigated how use of heated tobacco products (HTPs) affects tobacco cessation in a Japanese workplace. We offered cessation programmes for 158 tobacco users from November 2018 to April 2019 and surveyed the quitting rate in August 2019. Successful quitting was defined as stopping use of all kinds of nicotine-containing tobacco products. A Poisson regression analysis adjusted with inverse probability weighting showed that HTP users (either exclusive HTP users or dual users) were less likely than exclusive cigarette users to quit tobacco (risk ratio, 0.77; 95% CIs 0.61 to 0.97, p=0.024). The use of HTPs should not be recommended to assist in smoking cessation. Trial registration UMIN000034719.
- smoking cessation
- tobacco control
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Footnotes
Contributors Study design: MK, OK, TT. Literature search: MK, OK, TT. Data collection: MK. Data analysis: MK, OK, TT. Data interpretation: MK, OK, TT, TM. Drafting the paper: MK, OK, TM. Figures and tables: MK, OK. Manuscript reviewing: all authors.
Funding This study was supported in part by a grant from the National Hospital Organization’s fiduciary funds for English editing.
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.