Why the study?
Does smoking cessation, compared to smoking reduction, reduce cardiovascular disease incidence?
Does smoking cessation, compared to smoking reduction, reduce cardiovascular disease incidence?
Sustained smoking cessation, rather than merely reducing the amount smoked, is necessary to achieve a reduction in cardiovascular disease risk.
May support counseling complete cessation over reduction; leaves open causal confirmation in trials.
Smoking cessation, but not reduction, was associated with reduced CVD risk. Our study emphasizes the importance of sustained quitting in terms of CVD risk reduction.
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Jeong et al. (2021) studied this question.
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