The burden of smoking in Switzerland: Estimation for 2015 and prognosis until 2050

Mattli, Renato; Farcher, Renato; Dettling, Marcel; Syleouni, Maria‐Eleni; Wieser, Simon

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“…Smoking and nicotine consumption are major preventable causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide 1 . In Switzerland, 9500 people die directly or indirectly due to smoking each year 2,3 . According to surveillance reports from the Swiss Federal Office of Health, over one‐quarter of the Swiss population aged 15 years and older smoke regularly 3,4 .…”

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Cigarette, shisha, and electronic smoking and respiratory symptoms in Swiss children: The LUIS study

Mozún

Ardura‐Garcia

Jong

et al. 2020

Pediatric Pulmonology

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Background Smoking habits in adolescents are changing. We assessed active smoking of conventional cigarettes, e‐cigarettes and shishas in Swiss schoolchildren, studied risk factors and compared respiratory problems between smokers and non‐smokers. Methods We used data from LuftiBus in the school (LUIS), a school‐based survey of respiratory health of children carried out 2013 to 2016 in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Participants were asked about use of cigarettes, shishas, and electronic smoking devices (ESD), and current respiratory symptoms. We studied associations between smoking and risk factors using logistic regression. Results We included 3488 schoolchildren. Among 6 to 12‐year‐olds, 90/1905 (5%) had smoked occasionally (

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Cigarette, shisha, and electronic smoking and respiratory symptoms in Swiss children: The LUIS study

Mozún

Ardura‐Garcia

Jong

et al. 2020

Pediatric Pulmonology

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“…It is estimated that around 10,000 people die every year from smoking-related diseases. This corresponds to around 27 deaths per day, representing almost 15% of all deaths and leading to costs of around 5 billion Swiss francs per year (1,2). Fortunately, as several reports in recent years have shown, there has been a shift in the Swiss population, with a reduction in the prevalence of smoking (3,4).…”

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Smoking trends and health equity in Switzerland between 1992 and 2017: dependence of smoking prevalence on educational level and social determinants

Wehrli,

Gilljam,

Koh

et al. 2023

Front. Psychiatry

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BackgroundSwitzerland ranks among the top three healthcare systems in the world with regards to healthcare access, suggesting a high degree of health equity. However, Switzerland has few preventive strategies against smoking abuse. The aim of this study is to clarify whether educational level and citizenship status have an influence on the prevalence of smoking in Switzerland and whether there is health inequity related to a lack of preventive strategies.MethodsWe based our analysis on publicly available health data published in the Swiss government's Swiss health survey (1992–2017). We compared the prevalence of smoking across the years and correlated these data with levels of educational attainment, citizenship status and age.ResultsA continuous significant decline in smokers is observed in the highest education group (TERT). Over time, prevalence was reduced from 29% in 1992 to 23% in 2017 (p < 0.001). The intermediate-level educational group (SEK 2) showed smaller but also significant decline on a 0.05 sigificance level over the same period, from 31% to 29% (p = 0.003). The lowest educational group showed a nonsignificant decline from 28% to 27% (p = 0.6). The population who holds Swiss citizenship showed a decrease in smoking from 28% to 26% within the time frame (p < 0.001). People without Swiss citizenship had a much higher prevalence of smokers, at 38% in 1992 and declining to 32% in 2017 (p < 0.001). All cohorts from age 15 to age 64 have a far higher prevalence of smokers than cohorts at an older age, with the highest prevalence in the 25–34 age group.ConclusionIn Switzerland, individuals with lower levels of education and non-Swiss populations are more susceptible to health risk of smoking. This is despite the existence of a high-quality healthcare system that has nevertheless failed to negated health inequities.

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“…One in ten deaths around the world and one in seven in Switzerland are caused by tobacco use, making it one of the biggest single preventable causes of death both worldwide and in Switzerland. 1,2 In 2017, more than a quarter (27%) of the adult population in Switzerland (15 years or older) were current smokers. 3 This substantial proportion calls for effective efforts to reduce tobacco-related morbidity and mortality.…”

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Comparison of Motivational Short Interventions to Improve Smokers’ Health Behavior (The COSMOS Study): A Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Two-Arm Trial in General Practice

Grischott

Senn

Frei

et al. 2022

Nicotine &Amp; Tobacco Research

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Introduction Helping smokers to quit is an important task of general practitioners (GPs). However, achieving tobacco abstinence is difficult, and smokers who fail may still want to improve their health in other ways. Therefore, Swiss GPs developed a multithematic coaching concept that encourages health behavior changes beyond smoking cessation alone. Aims and Methods To compare the effectiveness of such coaching with state-of-the-art smoking cessation counseling, we conducted a pragmatic cluster-randomized two-arm trial with 56 GPs in German-speaking Switzerland and 149 of their cigarette smoking patients. GPs were instructed in either multithematic health coaching or smoking cessation counseling. After 12 months, we compared their patients’ improvements in cigarette consumption, body weight, physical inactivity, alcohol consumption, stress, unhealthy diet, and a health behavior of their own choice, using hierarchical logistic regression models and Fisher’s exact and t tests. Results Over 95% of all participants achieved clinically relevant improvements in at least one health behavior, with no difference between study arms (health coaching vs. smoking cessation counseling: aOR = 1.21, 95% CI = [0.03–50.76]; and aOR = 1.78, 95% CI = [0.51–6.25] after non-responder imputation). Rates of clinically relevant improvements in the individual health behaviors did not differ between study arms either (they were most frequent in physical activity, achieved by 3 out of 4 patients), nor did the extent of the improvements. Conclusions Multithematic health coaching and state-of-the art smoking cessation counseling were found to be comparable interventions, both in terms of smoking cessation success and, quite unexpectedly, their effects on other health behaviors. Implications The findings of our study suggest that in general practice, multithematic health coaching is an effective smoking cessation intervention, and conversely, monothematic smoking cessation counseling also achieves the beneficial effects of a multithematic health behavior intervention. This opens up the possibility for GPs to support their smoking patients in improving their health behavior in additional and more flexible ways.

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The burden of smoking in Switzerland: Estimation for 2015 and prognosis until 2050

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Cigarette, shisha, and electronic smoking and respiratory symptoms in Swiss children: The LUIS study

Cigarette, shisha, and electronic smoking and respiratory symptoms in Swiss children: The LUIS study

Smoking trends and health equity in Switzerland between 1992 and 2017: dependence of smoking prevalence on educational level and social determinants

Comparison of Motivational Short Interventions to Improve Smokers’ Health Behavior (The COSMOS Study): A Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Two-Arm Trial in General Practice

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