TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of a new craving index for anticipating quitting smoking in patients who undergo the Japanese smoking cessation therapy
AU - Taniguchi, Chie
AU - Tanaka, Hideo
AU - Nakamura, Sumie
AU - Saito, Sachiyo
AU - Saka, Hideo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - INTRODUCTION The 10-item version of the Questionnaire of Smoking Urges (QSUbrief) has demonstrated excellent reliability. However, the QSU-brief may be too long to use in clinical settings. We developed a new craving index called the Tobacco Craving Index (TCI) and investigated how closely the TCI grade is associated with success of quitting smoking in Japanese smoking cessation therapy (SCT) patients. METHODS The TCI questionnaire consists of two items: the first question asks about the strength of tobacco craving on a 4-point scale, and the second question asks about the frequency of tobacco craving per day on a 4-point scale. We conducted a prospective cohort study of 85 participants who underwent the Japanese SCT at a Japanese smoking cessation clinic. We administered the QSU-brief and TCI at each of the 5 sessions during the 12-week SCT. RESULTS Significant correlations were observed between the TCI grade and QSUbrief score (r=0.27, 0.55, 0.72, 0.58 and 0.68, at the five sessions). The change in mean TCI grade showed a similar trend as the change in mean QSU-brief score among the 43 patients who succeeded in quitting smoking and also among the 7 patients who failed to quit smoking by the last session. Both TCI and QSU-brief assessed after the second session were significantly associated with the smoking status at the last session. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for the success of quitting smoking in TCI grade was 0.615-0.881 at the 5 sessions, whereas it was 0.536-0.849 in QSU-brief score. CONCLUSIONS The TCI can be used as a predictive tool for success of quitting smoking in the Japanese SCT. As the TCI consists of two questionnaire items, it can be easily administered in smoking cessation interventions.
AB - INTRODUCTION The 10-item version of the Questionnaire of Smoking Urges (QSUbrief) has demonstrated excellent reliability. However, the QSU-brief may be too long to use in clinical settings. We developed a new craving index called the Tobacco Craving Index (TCI) and investigated how closely the TCI grade is associated with success of quitting smoking in Japanese smoking cessation therapy (SCT) patients. METHODS The TCI questionnaire consists of two items: the first question asks about the strength of tobacco craving on a 4-point scale, and the second question asks about the frequency of tobacco craving per day on a 4-point scale. We conducted a prospective cohort study of 85 participants who underwent the Japanese SCT at a Japanese smoking cessation clinic. We administered the QSU-brief and TCI at each of the 5 sessions during the 12-week SCT. RESULTS Significant correlations were observed between the TCI grade and QSUbrief score (r=0.27, 0.55, 0.72, 0.58 and 0.68, at the five sessions). The change in mean TCI grade showed a similar trend as the change in mean QSU-brief score among the 43 patients who succeeded in quitting smoking and also among the 7 patients who failed to quit smoking by the last session. Both TCI and QSU-brief assessed after the second session were significantly associated with the smoking status at the last session. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for the success of quitting smoking in TCI grade was 0.615-0.881 at the 5 sessions, whereas it was 0.536-0.849 in QSU-brief score. CONCLUSIONS The TCI can be used as a predictive tool for success of quitting smoking in the Japanese SCT. As the TCI consists of two questionnaire items, it can be easily administered in smoking cessation interventions.
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U2 - 10.18332/tid/114164
DO - 10.18332/tid/114164
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081155887
SN - 1617-9625
VL - 17
JO - Tobacco Induced Diseases
JF - Tobacco Induced Diseases
IS - December
M1 - 89
ER -