Experiences with Smoking Cessation Attempts and Prior Use of Cessation Aids in Smokers with HIV: Fin
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Pacek
LR, Holloway AD, Cropsey KL, Meade CS, Sweitzer MM, Davis JM, Joseph McClernon
F.
Experiences with Smoking
Cessation Attempts and Prior Use of Cessation Aids in Smokers with HIV:
Findings from a Focus Group Study Conducted in Durham, North Carolina.
AIDS Educ Prev. 2021 Apr;33(2):158-168. doi: 10.1521/aeap.2021.33.2.158. PMID:
33821680.
Cigarette smoking remains disproportionately prevalent and is increasingly a
cause of death and disability among people with HIV (PWH). Many PWH are
interested in quitting, but interest in and uptake of first-line smoking
cessation pharmacotherapies are varied in this population. To provide current
data regarding experiences with and perceptions of smoking cessation and
cessation aids among PWH living in Durham, North Carolina, the authors
conducted five focus group interviews (total n = 24; 96% African American) using
semistructured interviews. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, coded, and
thematically analyzed. Major themes included ambivalence and/or lack of
interest in cessation; presence of cessation barriers; perceived perceptions of
ineffectiveness of cessation aids; perceived medication side effects; and
conflation of the harms resulting from use of tobacco products and nicotine
replacement therapy. Innovative and effective interventions must account for
the aforementioned multiple barriers to cessation as well as prior experiences
with and misperceptions regarding cessation aids.
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