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Smoking Cessation in Women

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Women may be at relatively greater risk of smoking-related diseases than men but tend to have less success than men in quitting smoking. The failure of most outcome studies to report results by gender and the lack of statistical power for detecting significant gender differences currently do not allow for many firm conclusions to be drawn about smoking cessation rates in women, but several trends warrant attention and further study.

First, the difference in cessation rates for women versus men may be even greater in trials of nicotine replacement therapies (NRT). This suggests that women benefit less from NRT relative to men, although this difference may depend on the particular form of NRT (e.g. inhaler versus gum). On the other hand, some non-NRT medications may reverse the poorer outcome of women, producing quit rates in women comparable with those in men. Gender differences in outcome, as well as overall success rates, with NRT and some of the non-NRT medications appear to be enhanced when treatment includes substantial behavioural counselling. However, while several of the non-NRT medications may be particularly appropriate to consider for treating women trying to quit smoking, adverse effects may limit widespread use of some of these drugs, such as clonidine and naltrexone. Thus, even if the gender differences in outcome with NRT versus non-NRT drugs are confirmed in further research, such findings do not necessarily justify limiting NRT use in women, because such treatment is clearly effective and is likely to be safer and more readily available than non-NRT medications. Nevertheless, study of the mechanisms by which some non-NRT drugs are effective in women may aid our understanding of factors that are more influential in smoking behaviour in women than in men.

Secondly, smoking cessation treatment for women must address several other issues that often emerge, and these are most likely to require behavioural counselling that is tailored to these problems. These issues include concern about bodyweight gain, restrictions on medication use in pregnant smokers, variability in mood and withdrawal as a function of menstrual cycle phase, harnessing social support to foster abstinence, and the possibility that smoking-associated environmental cues may be more influential in smoking behaviour in women than men.

Greater attention to gender differences in clinical trial outcomes and to addressing concerns of women smokers may aid in the development of substantially improved smoking cessation interventions for women.

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Dr Perkins has received honoraria for educational activities from Glaxo Wellcome and has provided consultation services to Elan Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, and Murty Pharmaceuticals. No support for the preparation of this manuscript was received from these sponsors. Preparation of this manuscript was supported by Grants DA04174 and DA12655 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the U.S. Public Health Service.

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Perkins, K.A. Smoking Cessation in Women. Mol Diag Ther 15, 391–411 (2001). https://doi.org/10.2165/00023210-200115050-00005

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