Immediate Smoking Cessation Among People Living with HIV

摘要

Smoking, among HIV-infected individuals, is also a major cause of morbidity and mortality (1-3). Over 40% of HIV-infected people in the United States smoke; additionally 20% are former smokers (4). Furthermore, HIV-infected smokers seem to face higher rates of cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and numerous primary cancers compared with rates expected from smoking itself (5-7). However, antiretroviral therapy (ART) has improved their life expectancy (8, 9). HIV-infected individuals are now living long enough to develop smoking-associated diseases. Unfortunately, in HIV care, smoking cessation interventions have not been widely implemented.