Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Smoking Cessation in Veteran Smokers

Collie, Claire; Clancy, Carolina P.; Yeatts, Crg Beth P.; Beckham, Jean C.

doi:10.1300/j189v03n04_03

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“…The smoking rate in the US population is estimated to be 23% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007). Smoking rates of 33% in veterans have been reported (Collie et al, 2004) and reports of smoking rates in Vietnam veterans have ranged from 40% (Lasser et al, 2000) to 60% (Beckham et al, 1995;Hapke et al, 2005). This report is the first, to our knowledge, to report the rate of cigarette smoking in veterans with PTSD returning from Iraq or Afghanistan.…”

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confidence: 73%

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Smoking in help-seeking veterans with PTSD returning from Afghanistan and Iraq

Kirby¹,

Hertzberg²,

Collie³

et al. 2008

Addictive Behaviors

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Past research has shown that veterans and individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have increased rates of smoking. However, the rates of smoking in younger help-seeking veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, and possible correlates of smoking among this population are unknown. In this study, we evaluated the rate of lifetime and current smoking among a sample of 90 returning male veterans diagnosed with PTSD. Fifty-nine percent reported a lifetime history of smoking including 32% that were current smokers. Current smokers were significantly younger than nonsmokers. Current smokers (mean age = 31) reported a mean age of smoking onset as 15.86 with a pack year history of 8.89. These smokers reported on average five previous quit attempts. According to a stages-of-change model, one-half of the smokers were in the contemplation phase of stopping smoking (50%), 29% were in the precontemplation phase and 21% were in the preparation phase. The results are placed in the context of non-psychiatric and psychiatric smokers.

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“…Veterans also have an increased rate of cigarette smoking compared to the general population (33% vs 23% respectively, Collie, Clancy, Yeatts, & Beckham, 2004). Military deployment has been related to smoking initiation and increases in cigarette consumption among those who smoke.…”

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Smoking in help-seeking veterans with PTSD returning from Afghanistan and Iraq

Kirby¹,

Hertzberg²,

Collie³

et al. 2008

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“…Nicotine addiction is hard to overcome, and therefore, patterns of smoking (re-)established, maintained, or amplified during the period of active-duty military service may carry over into the veteran period of the life course, which characterizes the vast majority of the adult lives of most people who serve in the military. There is considerable evidence documenting a strong association between veteran status and smoking (Bondurant & Wedge, 2009; Brown, 2010; Collie, Clancy, Yeatts, & Beckham, 2006). The likelihood of ever and current smoking is higher for veterans than for non-veterans (Feigelman, 1994; Klevens et al, 1995; McKinney, McIntire, Carmody, & Joseph, 1997).…”

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The Influence of Men’s Military Service on Smoking Across the Life Course

London

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Miech

et al. 2016

Journal of Drug Issues

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The military is described as a social context that contributes to the (re-)initiation or intensification of cigarette smoking. We draw on data from the 1985–2014 National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) to conduct complementary sub-studies of the influence of military service on men’s smoking outcomes across the life course. Descriptive findings from an age–period–cohort analysis of NSDUH data document higher probabilities of current smoking and heavy smoking among veteran men across a broad range of cohorts and at all observed ages. Findings from sibling fixed-effects Poisson models estimated on the WLS data document longer durations of smoking among men who served in the military and no evidence that selection explains the observed relationship. Together, these results provide novel and potentially generalizable evidence that participation in the military in early adulthood exerts a causal influence on smoking across the life course.

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“…Studies have shown some military personnel begin smoking while deployed and those who already smoke increase their cigarette consumption (Collie, Clancy, Yeatts, & Beckham, 2004; Forgas, Meyer, & Cohen, 1996). A survey of veterans receiving care from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) reports a smoking prevalence rate of 22.2% (VHA, 2008).…”

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Public health clinical demonstration project for smoking cessation in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder

Dedert

Wilson

Calhoun

et al. 2010

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Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder are at high risk for smoking and experience difficulty with smoking cessation. We designed this clinical demonstration project to provide a low-cost, feasibly implemented smoking cessation intervention that would maximize the number of smokers who accessed the intervention. Five hundred eighty-four veteran smokers were contacted by invitational letters. Interested veterans received follow-up telephone calls using standardized scripts offering three intervention resources: 1) a referral to the National Cancer Institute’s Smoking Quitline, 2) web-based counseling, and 3) local Veteran Affairs pharmacologic treatment for smoking cessation. Twenty-three percent of survey recipients participated in the clinical program. Two months after these resources were offered by phone, follow-up phone calls indicated that 25% of participants providing follow-up information reported maintaining smoking abstinence. This clinical demonstration project was associated with a 2.6% impact (i.e., reach [31.1% of smokers accessed intervention] by efficacy [8.4% of those accessing intervention quit]), meaning that 2.6% of the total number of targeted smokers reported 8 week abstinence. Results suggested that this brief, low-cost intervention was feasible and promoted smoking cessation in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Smoking Cessation in Veteran Smokers

Cited by 5 publications

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Smoking in help-seeking veterans with PTSD returning from Afghanistan and Iraq

Smoking in help-seeking veterans with PTSD returning from Afghanistan and Iraq

The Influence of Men’s Military Service on Smoking Across the Life Course

Public health clinical demonstration project for smoking cessation in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder

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