Sentences with phrase «former cigarette smokers»

The «pessimistic» scenario finds 1.6 million of these former cigarette smokers will have a combined 20.8 million more years of life, while the «optimistic» scenario calculates 6.6 million nicotine users who switch from cigarettes to e-cigarettes will live 86.7 more life years.

Daily cannabis use increased most rapidly among former cigarette smokers (2.80 percent in 2014 versus 0.98 percent in 2002).

Not exact matches

Former smokers, for instance, can become ill if they try a cigarette after having not smoked for a certain amount of time.

Individuals who reported smoking 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and no cigarettes in the past 30 days were grouped as former smokers.

Marijuana use occurred nearly exclusively among current cigarette smokers — daily or non-daily smokers — compared with former smokers and those who have never smoked.

Among their concerns: e-cigs might lure former smokers back to conventional cigarettes, expose users and bystanders alike to unidentified dangers, or become a gateway for teens who might subsequently experiment with tobacco products and other drugs.

But smokers and former smokers are rarely asked precisely how long they smoked and how many cigarettes a day they consumed at every point in their lives.

Television advertisements for e-cigarettes may be enticing current and even former tobacco smokers to reach for another cigarette.

«We know that exposure to smoking cues such as visual depictions of cigarettes, ashtrays, matches, lighters, and smoke heightens smokers» urge to smoke a cigarette, and decreases former smokers» confidence in their ability to refrain from smoking a cigarette,» said Dr. Maloney.

According to a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, current and former smokers who suffer from disease are more likely to have reported using an e-cigarette, meaning these patients may see e-cigarettes as safer or less harmful than combustible cigarettes and a way to reduce the risks posed by traditional smoking.

The research informs an ongoing debate as to whether e-cigarettes are effective aids for smoking cessation, promote uptake by non-tobacco users, discourage cessation via dual use of cigarettes and e-cigarettes, or encourage relapse to cigarette use among former smokers.

«Marijuana may lead non-smokers to cigarettes: Former smokers who use cannabis are also more likely to relapse, and current smokers who use cannabis are less likely to quit.»

Former smokers who use cannabis are also more likely to relapse to cigarette smoking.

The studies included information on participants» health, gender, age, race, education level, and family history of lung cancer, as well as their smoking history, including how old they were when they started, how many years they smoked, how many cigarettes they smoked each day, and, for former smokers, how long it had been since they quit.

The 18 reports of women showed that one cigarette per day had 31 % (interquartile range 2 - 46 %) of the excess risk of 20 cigarettes per day (pooled relative risks 1.57 v 2.84), and smoking five cigarettes per day had 43 % (14 - 55 %) the excess risk (relative risk 1.76)(fig 3; supplementary figure C. (Excluding one study that might have included former smokers in the reference group increased the relative risks for one and 20 cigarettes per day to 1.63 and 2.87.)