• Christofferson DE, Dennis PA, Hertzberg JS, Beckham JC, Knoeppel J, Hamlett-Berry K. Real-world utilization and outcomes of the Veterans Health Administration's smoking cessation text message program. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. 2020 Sep 18.
• Tam J, Taylor GMJ, Zivin K, Warner KE, Meza R. Modeling smoking-attributable mortality among adults with major depression in the United States. Preventive medicine. 2020 Aug 27; 106241.
• Costa Monteiro AC, Suri R, Emeruwa IO, Stretch RJ, Cortes Lopez RY, Sherman A, Lindsay CC, Fulcher JA, Goodman-Meza D, Sapru A, Buhr RG, Chang SY, Wang T, Qadir N. Obesity and Smoking as Risk Factors for Invasive Mechanical Ventilation in COVID-19: a Retrospective, Observational Cohort Study. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences. 2020 Aug 14.
• Medenblik AM, Mann AM, Beaver TA, Dedert EA, Wilson SM, Calhoun PS, Beckham JC. Treatment Outcomes of a Multi-Component Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Pilot Intervention for People with Schizophrenia. Journal of Dual Diagnosis. 2020 Jul 31; 1-9.
• Nagawa CS, Emidio OM, Lapane KL, Houston TK, Barton BA, Faro JM, Blok AC, Orvek EA, Cutrona SL, Smith BM, Allison JJ, Sadasivam RS. Teamwork for smoking cessation: which smoker was willing to engage their partner? Results from a cross-sectional study. BMC research notes. 2020 Jul 20; 13(1):344.

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• Older Age Strongest Risk Factor Associated with Mechanical Ventilation and Death among Veterans with COVID-19
  This study sought to identify risk factors associated with hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, and death among patients with COVID-19 infection. Findings showed that Veterans who were COVID-positive were more likely to be Black (42% vs 25%), obese (45% vs 40%), and to live in states with a high burden of COVID-19 compared to Veterans who tested negative. Veterans who tested positive for COVID...
  
  Date: September 23, 2020
• Proactive Outreach Helps Veterans with PTSD Overcome Barriers to Getting Treatment to Help Quit Smoking
  Investigators identified participants with and without PTSD and evaluated a proactive outreach intervention for increasing treatment utilization and smoking abstinence among these Veterans. Findings showed that compared to usual care, proactive outreach increased combined counseling and nicotine replacement therapy use among Veterans with PTSD (19% vs 1%) and without PTSD (15% vs 2%). For the prim...
  
  Date: July 2, 2020
• Unintentional Consequences of FDA Warnings: Varenicline
  This study examined the association between FDA drug safety communications and the use of varenicline (Chantix) – a prescription drug used to treat addiction to smoking. Investigators tracked varenicline and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) prescribing and evaluated the potential consequences of decreased varenicline use on lost opportunities to assist patients with quitting smoking and health o...
  
  Date: September 4, 2019
• Preoperative Surgical Screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria is Not Beneficial
  Strong evidence that preoperative screening for bacteria in the urine, and treatment with antibiotics if found to be positive, improves clinical outcomes is lacking. This study sought to measure the association between asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) and key postoperative infectious outcomes, including surgical-site infection (SSI) and UTI, and determine if directed antimicrobial therapy was associ...
  
  Date: December 12, 2018
• Effects of Cannabis among Adults with Chronic Pain
  This systematic review assesses the efficacy of cannabis for treating chronic pain, and provides a broad overview of the short- and long-term physical and mental health effects of cannabis use in chronic pain and general patient populations. Overall, investigators found low-strength evidence that cannabis may improve pain in some patients with neuropathic pain and insufficient evidence to characte...
  
  Date: August 5, 2017

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• Management Briefs eBrief-no32 -- Comparative Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Treatments for Patients with Depression

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• Comparative Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Treatments for Patients With Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Evidence

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• Team-Delivered Intervention for Smoking and Hazardous Drinking for Veterans with CVD Treated in Primary Care || In Progress

  ...» Team-Delivered Intervention for Smoking and Hazardous Drinking for Veterans...Contents Team-Delivered Intervention for Smoking and Hazardous Drinking for Veterans

• Improving Cancer Care || In Progress

  ...papilloma virus or HPV). For example, smoking causes approximately 90% of lung cancer...in men and nearly 80% among women; smoking also can cause cancer of the mouth...papilloma virus or HPV). For example, smoking causes approximately 90% of lung cancer...in men and nearly 80% among women; smoking also can cause cancer of the mouth

• Improving Cancer Care || In Progress

  ...papilloma virus or HPV). For example, smoking causes approximately 90% of lung cancer...in men and nearly 80% among women; smoking also can cause cancer of the mouth...with >30 pack years of smoking who continue to smoke or have quit less than

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• Support for Veterans with Substance Use Disorders 01/18/18
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Podcasts

• Optimizing Medication Assisted Treatment for Substance Use Disorder 06/03/2020
• Opioids and PTSD 07/20/2017

Other Resources

• Learn more about VA resources to quit smoking.
• Visit the VA's Office of Research & Development substance use disorder section to learn more about milestones in smoking cessation research throughout VA.
• Visit the American Cancer Society’s smoking-cessation information.