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  ES24 - Challenges in Tobacco Control (ID 190)

  • Event: WCLC 2020
  • Type: Educational Session
  • Track: Risk Reduction and Tobacco Control
  • Presentations: 1
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  • Coordinates: 1/31/2021, 11:45 - 12:45, Scientific Program Auditorium

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    ES24.03 - Current Status of Smoking Cessation with Heated Tobacco Products Use in Japan (ID 4029)

    11:45 - 12:45  |  Presenting Author(s): Takahiro Tabuchi
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    Heated tobacco products (HTPs) such as IQOS and Ploom Tech have rapidly become popular in Japan, but their impact on smoking cessation practices is not fully understood. To consider the influence of HTPs on smoking cessation practices, we compared the proportion of different methods used by smokers in their attempts to quit during 2016 and 2018, i.e. before and after the widespread use of HTPs in Japan. We conducted an internet survey of the Japanese general population from January to March of 2016 and 2018 (the JASTIS study 2016, 2018) and analyzed 133 (2016) and 376 (2018) smokers who attempted to quit smoking at least once within the previous year (quit attempters).

    The percentages of each quit method implemented by the 133 quit attempters in 2016 were 21.8% for over-the-counter smoking cessation aids, 14.3% for smoking cessation treatment at smoking cessation clinics, 25.6% for electronic cigarettes and/or HTPs, and 72.2% for unassisted quitting (i.e. quitting without pharmacological aids or other interventions). Next, the percentages of each quit method among the 376 quit attempters in 2018 were found to be 22.9% for over-the-counter smoking cessation aids, 15.2% for smoking cessation treatment at smoking cessation clinics, 51.6% for HTPs, 27.7% for electronic cigarettes, and 42.3% for unassisted quitting. Collectively with "electronic cigarettes and/or HTPs," the figure was 64.1%.

    From 2016 to 2018, the percentage of electronic cigarettes and/or HTPs used as quit methods increased from 25.6% to 64.1%, with HTPs being the most common quit method in 2018 at 51.6%. There has been a decreasing tendency in the number of smoking cessation visits in Japan as HTPs have become more popular. This may be due in part to the tobacco industry’s promotion of HTPs, which has resulted in quit attempters trying HTPs instead of quitting cigarettes.

    Details of important roles of tobacco control in the continuum of cancer care are shown in the book chapter 4 “Cancer and Socioeconomic Status” that can be freely available for academic use (below link: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811518300).

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