农村居民吸烟者对尼古丁替代疗法的信仰:促进吸收的一步
Dana Mowls Carroll1, Andy Tan2, Mackenzie Differding1
1Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Preventive medicine reports
|July 17, 2025
概括
农村的吸烟者面临着由于治疗使用率较低而导致戒烟的挑战. 解决有关尼古丁替代疗法 (NRT) 的成本,获取和误解,可以提高这些社区的戒烟率.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 行为科学 行为科学
- 健康差异 在健康上的差异
背景情况:
- 与城市地区相比,美国农村人口的吸烟率更高.
- 农村地区的戒烟率较低与减少使用基于证据的戒烟辅助药物有关,包括尼古丁替代疗法 (NRT).
研究的目的:
- 确定和优先考虑美国农村成年吸烟者对尼古丁替代疗法 (NRT) 的信仰.
- 为制定有针对性的战略提供信息,旨在增加农村社区戒烟的NRT使用率.
主要方法:
- 进行了一项定性在线诱导调查,对52名美国农村成年吸烟者 (21岁以上) 进行了调查.
- 开放式问题探讨了NRT用于戒烟的感知优势,缺点,促进者和障碍.
- 调查答复被系统地编码成信念主题,并以表格形式对主题频率进行表格化.
主要成果:
- 关键的感知NRT的优势包括管理渴望 (42%),简化戒烟过程 (23%),并缓解戒断症状 (17%).
- 关于NRT的主要担忧是对NRT产品的成 (29%),高成本 (23%),潜在的副作用 (19%) 和被认为是无效的 (13-17%).
- 使用NRT的主要障碍是成本 (52%),不愉快的味道 (19%),尼古丁含量不足 (13%) 和有限的获取权 (11%) 促进者包括降低成本 (54%) 和改善访问和可用性 (13%).
结论:
- 加强农村地区的NRT采用需要战略来提高负担能力和可访问性.
- 解决关于NRT有效性和安全性的误解对于增加吸收至关重要.
- 提供关于适当的NRT使用和副作用管理的指导,可以支持农村吸烟者试图戒烟.
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