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New research suggests that, compared with men, women may be more susceptible to smoking-related morbidity and mortality. Gender-related barriers to smoking cessation include weight gain, sex hormones, and mood. Furthermore, the sensory aspects of smoking may have more of an effect on smoking treatment for women than for men.
11 lut 2021 · The report, “Through a gender lens: women and tobacco in the WHO European Region”, has revealed that, although tobacco use among women is decreasing overall, the rate is going down at a much slower pace than in men, and in some countries it is increasing.
4 cze 2020 · RMST analysis showed that very high smoking (>28 pack-years) has greater impact on women than men for earlier age of death (4.7 years earlier for women, 4.1 years earlier for men), and stroke (2 years earlier for women, 1.1 years earlier for men).
1 sty 2024 · Researchers in two studies (8.70%) interviewed women smokers with a chronic disease; one focussed on HIV-positive women (Kim and DeMarco, 2022), and another one on women with substance use disorders (Martinez Leal et al., 2021).
The pooled prevalence of ever and current cigarette smoking in women was 28% and 17%, respectively. The pooled prevalence of ever cigarette smoking in adolescent girls/students of the school, adult women, pregnant women, and women with the disease was 23%, 27%, 32%, and 38%, respectively.
9 cze 2021 · Even if smoking prevalence has been historically higher in men, an increased uptake of smoking in young women compared with young men has been reported in many countries. An important body of evidence shows that women may be more sensitive than men to some of the harmful effects of smoking.
d Primary cancer (s) (previously or newly diagnosed) other than lung cancer. Among cases, one-fourth of women were never smokers as compared with only 2% of men; among controls, 57% of women were never smokers as compared with 25% of men (Table 2). In both sexes, current smokers comprised approximately 50% of cases and less than 30% of controls ...
